Customers tackled and ­disarmed a man who tried to hold up a London grocery store Wednesday night — the same man police have also charged with robbing a gas ­station earlier in the evening.

London police urge the public not to “approach somebody who is in possession of a weapon,” said Const. Sandasha Bough.

The evening started when a man with a handgun demanded, and received, money at a north London gas station about 5:30 p.m.

Then at 7 p.m., a man waving a handgun demanded money from a cashier at a FreshCo grocery store at Commissioners and Wellington roads.

“A number of bystanders assisted in detaining him and were able to remove the weapon” before ­officers arrived, Bough said.

The gun, it turns out, was a pellet gun, she said. But it’s often impossible to distinguish a real gun from a fake gun and people shouldn’t carry one or try to disarm someone carrying one.

Instead, they should go to a safe place and call 911, she said.

A 44-year-old man has been charged with armed robbery, attempted robbery, using an imitation firearm while committing an offence, carrying a concealed weapon and assault.

No one was injured in the incidents, she said.

dvanbrenk@postmedia.com

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