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Arrest made after armed robbery at Thomas Cook store

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Tom Parry
12 July 2016

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of an armed robbery at the agency in Tunbridge Wells.

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The 40-year-old was allegedly shot in Cape Town's Nyanga township

The 32-year-old from Orpington was taken into custody yesterday after the incident at the travel agency on Friday (July 8).

Authorities were called to the store in Mount Pleasant Road at 11.35am after staff had reported being threatened by a man armed with a handgun.

According to Kent Online, a “quantity of currency” was stolen from the shop with the suspect fleeing the scene on foot.

It is then believed he got into a blue Renault Clio which was last spotted heading in the direction of Crowborough.