On Thursday the 04-04-13 at around 8.45 pm two assailants wearing balaclavas entered the Milk Bar on Nicholson Street in Meadow Heights threatening the twenty-two-year-old shop assistant with a knife. The female shop assistant then produced a baseball bat to defend herself at which time she was sprayed with capsicum spray by the assailant. The assailants then took the cash from the till and fled. Fawkner Police Embona detectives are investigating the incident.

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