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RESIDENTS and workers in the area heard police cars and armed response units heading to the scene after the incident which happened at around 9am on Friday morning.
ARMED response police raced to a Viewpark shop on Friday morning after a security van was reportedly held up.
Officers are still at the scene on Old Edinburgh Road where a Loomis security van is sealed off by police tape.
Mechanic Michael Geoghegan, who works at nearby garage Park Autos, said: "It seems like the van was held up just before 9am. There was lots of police response and a helicopter was in the air.
"At around 9:40, three armed response cars headed off towards Bellshill at speed."
A resident who did not want to be named, added: "There is a burnt out car over at Market Place, we don't know if it is connected to the robbery but there are police everywhere".