Police seek to find armed robbers

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Police have asked for the public's help to track two armed robbers who stole cigarettes and tobacco from a Hamilton dairy on Sunday.

The young Maori men in their late teens or early 20s, held up the Holland Road Superette at knifepoint about 6.30pm on Sunday.

They entered the shop and demanded tobacco, police said.

"Knives were presented and the two elderly Indian shop workers (a husband and wife) were threatened," said Detective Karl Little from the Hamilton police.

The pair fled with cigarettes and tobacco towards Heaphy Terrace, in the eastern suburbs.

One was described as solidly built, about 180cm tall. He was wearing a distinctive red ski-type rain jacket with a hood. The other man was skinny, about 170cm tall. He was wearing a black jacket with blue panels down the front.

- NZPA