Page last updated at 12:50 GMT, Tuesday, 16 December 2008

Reward over travel agent raiders

A £5,000 reward has been offered for information about an armed robbery at a travel agent in Surrey.

Two men used guns to threaten staff at Thomas Cook in Haslemere High Street during Wednesday's raid.

A BMW estate, thought to have been used by the gunmen, with the registration number RJ04 MWY, was found burnt-out in a car park in Tennysons Lane on Sunday.

Police said this car was stolen by two masked men in a car-jacking in Derby Road last month.

The driver of the BMW was targeted as he started the engine ordered to get out of the vehicle.

Cash seized

In the raid on Thomas Cook, two gunmen pulled up in a BMW outside the shop just after 1630 GMT.

They switched on the car's hazard lights and went into the shop where they threatened the workers with guns and demanded money.

Then they fled with the cash along West Street, where one of the men got out of the car shouting and brandishing a weapon at the driver of a Range Rover blocking their way.

Police said no-one was injured.

The reward is being offered by Thomas Cook to anyone who can help identify the raiders.

Det Con Dave Pellatt appealed to anyone who saw the vehicle before Sunday to come forward.



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