Police were called to a Heretaunga Street store just after 5pm, after a man with a firearm entered demanding goods.

A white SUV fled the scene and Police are asking any witnesses to call 105.

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15 Dec: Police have named the two people found dead after a house fire in Manawatu last week

14 Dec: Crews on the ground and in the air are fighting to put out a vegetation fire in rural Whanganui

14 Dec: Hawkes Bay Police are urging the public to keep their homes and vehicles secure - with a spike in the number of diesel thefts in rural Hastings

11 Dec: A Police watchdog report finds officers in Hawke's Bay unlawfully entered a house this year and used unjustified force to arrest a man breaching bail

10 Dec: Police are maintaining an increased presence in Horowhenua's Foxton Beach after the deaths of two people in a house fire

09 Dec: Fire crews have extinguished a blaze that ripped through home in Manawatu's Foxton Beach this morning, but two people remain unaccounted for

07 Dec: Black Caps spinner Ajaz Patel has just surpassed 400 first-class wickets while playing for the Central Stags in their four-day Plunket Shield match against Canterbury in Napier

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