An Indian service station attendant was left traumatised after three men robbed a BP service station in Melbourne while she was on her first shift at work.
The attendant was alone at the store when three men entered the store in Reservoir in Melbourne's north during the early hours on Sunday and began smashing the glass displays with a hammer and wheel spanner.
Hearing the noise, the attendant who was at the back of the store making breakfast rushed to the counter with her hands raised. Though she immediately opened the cash register and did not offer any resistance, the robber turned to her with a hammer, repeatedly smashing her mobile phone before hitting her on an arm.
The woman was left shaking and in tears, without any phone to call for help. Her husband, who also works at the same service station and had left for home just half hour ago, eventually came to her help after she went out and used a customer’s phone.
“She was terrible, she was crying and she couldn’t even speak for at least half-an-hour,” the woman’s husband told 7 News.
Though the female attendant did not suffer any physical harm, she is still in a state of shock and hasn’t returned to work. She recently came to Australia and had just begun to work with her husband to learn the trade.
The business owner says robbers made away with nearly $10,000 worth of cigarettes and cash and inflicted “a lot of damage” during the rampage in the store. The store has been robbed three times in the last three months.
7 News reports that the car used in the crime was found dumped in the nearby suburb of Bundoora.
