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Shopkeeper uses sign to fend off robbers
A shopkeeper has fended off two armed men with a metal-framed sign during a struggle that left a woman injured in Sydney's west.
Police said two men wearing hooded jumpers entered a grocery store in Blacktown about 7.30pm on Friday (AEST).
The men allegedly threatened a female shop attendant with a knife, before she pushed them away and a struggle began.
A male shopkeeper stepped in, hitting the men with a metal-framed sign.
The shopkeeper's jacket was slashed with a knife, but he was not injured, and the men fled on foot empty-handed.
The woman was taken to hospital with minor injuries to her arm and face.
Police have asked anyone with information to come forward.
