Police hunt Shepparton bank bandit
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Police are searching for a man who threatened staff and customers with a gun, during a bank hold-up in Shepparton yesterday morning.
A man holding a sawn-off shotgun walked into the Goulburn Murray Credit Union on Fryers Street at 9:45am AEST.
He told staff and customers to lie down on the floor, then demanded money from the bank tellers.
He walked out and got into a white or grey 1990s Ford Falcon sedan driven by another man.
Detective Sergeant Stuart Bailey from the Armed Crime Task Force says no-one was hurt, but the employees and customers were shaken.
"There was a lot of staff in there at the time and yes they are quite shocked and upset as a result of what's occurred," he said.
"But their manager's there and they're all discussing it and doing a bit of counselling on their own and they've shut the bank for the day."
The robber is described as being 30 to 40-years-old, overweight to obese, with dark skin and was wearing a white hooded jumper and a red cap.
