A MAN suspected of carrying out an armed raid at a Longford post office is being treated in hospital after attempting to give gardaí the slip during a car chase across the county.
The suspect, who is from the Dublin area, is understood to have entered the post office shortly after 2.30pm this afternoon armed with a baseball bat and a Stanley knife.
During the incident, the man demanded cash and obtained the keys to a Mazda car after threatening a female customer.
Having secured what’s been described as a significant sum of cash, the man took off in the car with a number of units from both Longford and Granard in pursuit.
A short time later, the suspect was arrested after losing control of the vehicle and crashing between Carrickboy and Edgeworthstown.
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The man, aged in his 40s, is orginally from Dublin but had been living in the Edgeworthstown area.
He is believed to have sustained a head injury as a result and is being treated in hospital.
The road where the chase came to an end is currently closed and will remain so until around 5:30pm.