POLICE are still hunting for clues that will lead them to three separate gangs of armed raiders who stole £37,500.
The gangs struck across Bolton in the space of two hours as cash deliveries were being made to a petrol station, a post office and a bank on Tuesday morning.
The biggest haul was from Johnson Fold Post Office in Moss Bank Way where two men brandishing a handgun escaped with £27,500.
Two robbers riding a powerful motorbike and armed with a machete, fled with £10,000 from a security guard outside Lloyds TSB in Market Street, Farnworth.
And a security guard was slashed across his wrist and arm as he struggled with two masked men carrying a machete and a sledgehammer on the forecourt of the Shell petrol station in Bridgeman Place in Bolton town centre. They fled with a cash box - but it was empty.
Anyone with information should contact Bolton CID on 0161 856 5740 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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