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A bank teller was injured Monday during an armed robbery of the Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union at 2001 Ashby Ave., the Berkeley Police Department reported. 

According to police, two males entered the credit union at 10:30 a.m. One of the men, carrying a rifle, robbed the two tellers on duty and hit one in the back of the head with his gun. 

The second man held a duffle bag into which the men stuffed money before fleeing by foot in an unknown direction, police said.  

The injured teller was taken to Alta Bates Hospital. As of press time, police did not know the extent of the tellers’s injuries or how much money was stolen from the credit union.