Armed gang raids second village shop

A CCTV image of a robber captured during the first raid at Wooburn

An armed gang who pointed a gun at a four-year-old girl are believed to have struck again at a store in the same village.

A masked gang threatened a mother and her child with a handgun during the first robbery at the One Stop shop at Wooburn Green, Buckinghamshire, on 30 October.

Thames Valley Police now say they believe the same gang were behind an armed robbery at the village Post Office shop on Thursday.

Three robbers - armed with a handgun, knife and baseball bat - went into the shop at about 1650 GMT, hit the postmaster over the head with a gun and stole an undisclosed amount of cash.

Reward offered

A Thames Valley Police spokeswoman said there were "very strong similarities" between the two raids at Wooburn Green.

Officers also praised the postmaster, who was treated for minor injuries, for being "heroic" when faced with the three armed men.

An appeal has been made for any witnesses to the robbery, which was carried out by three white men in their 20s who ran out of the shop and along Juniper Hill.

In the first robbery three men armed with a handgun, a knife and a baseball bat, which was used to hit a member of staff on the head, escaped in a getaway car driven by a fourth man.

A £5,000 reward offered for information leading to the successful prosecution of the robbers is still outstanding from the first incident.

The gang have also been linked to similar robberies across Buckinghamshire and two in Hampshire.