DETECTIVES were today hunting an armed gang who ram-raided an Armaguard depot using a tipper truck and got away with around £500,000.
Staff were forced to lie on the floor at the Armaguard building in Mode Wheel Road, Salford. A shot was fired which hit the ceiling but no-one was injured.
The four-man gang escaped in a dark coloured saloon car which had been stolen in Salford.
Armaguard offered a £25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gang.
The robbery is an almost identical raid to a theft of £400,000 from a security depot in Great Lever earlier this year.
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