Dartmouth robbery sends one man to hospital

A Halifax Regional Police emblem is seen in Halifax on July 2, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

A man is recovering from injuries after a robbery in Dartmouth, N.S., police say.

Two men approached him Friday morning before one assaulted him and took his property, according to a news release from Halifax Regional Police.

Both suspects ran away. The man didn’t know who they were.

Officers responded to Prime Rose Street around 6:40 a.m.

The man was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police describe the suspect who assaulted him as a Black man in his 30s, about five-foot-eight with a medium build. The other man was white, about 35-years-old, standing about six feet, police say.

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