Police are investigating the attempted armed robbery of a service station at Southport overnight.
Around 9pm the 50-year-old male store employee saw a man acting suspiciously outside the Nerang Street business and directed a customer inside the store to leave.
The attendant then retreated to a back room.
The man entered the store before the 59-year-old male customer could leave and threatened him with a firearm while making demands for money.
After the customer advised the man that he was not an employee and could not open the till, he fled the scene empty-handed.
The man is described as being aged in his 20’s and wearing a black hoodie, sunglasses and shorts.
No one was physically injured in the incident.
Investigations are ongoing.
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