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Two people are facing charges after a violent robbery at a southeast Calgary convenience store that was captured on security camera footage now circulating online.

The video shows a man and woman in disguises entering the convenience store and threatening night clerk Nisar Ahmed just before 5 a.m. on Aug. 17.

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Ahmed, called “Sonny” by his friends and many regular night-time customers, was speaking to a friend on the phone when the pair busted in.

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“They told me, ‘get down! Get down!’ ” he said, speaking to Postmedia from behind the counter he’s manned for a number of years.

As the pair went behind the counter — one of them brandishing a small hatchet — to stuff their bags with cigarettes, fighting with the robbers never crossed his mind.

“I said to him, anything he wants, he can take it,” Ahmed said.

“But he pushed me, and then he started fighting me.”

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He can be seen in the video grabbing at the pickaxe-type weapon brandished by one of the thieves and pulling off his ski mask. They grapple as the female thief begins striking at the clerk with a tire iron-type implement.