Jeweller smashed in head with hammer during robbery in suburban Brisbane store
The men were wearing masks and wielding hammers and metal bars when they entered Shree Ganesh Jewellers on Gympie Rd at Chermside just after 5pm on Tuesday.
The store owner, Bijaya Sunar, who was working at the time, was struck in the head several times with a hammer.
'The group then smashed a number of glass cabinets and stole a large amount of jewellery,' Queensland Police said.
His wife Samita Subarnkar Sunar was also in the store at the time of the alleged attack.
The jewellery store has a system which requires customers to buzz a doorbell to be admitted inside.
7NEWS understands the alleged offenders waited outside until a customer and her children were heading in.
The men then pushed past the woman and children and unleashed on the store.
Bijaya was taken to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in a stable condition.
Samita told 7NEWS that her husband required emergency surgery to remove a haematoma on his brain.
The offenders fled in a grey Honda CR-V station wagon, which was allegedly stolen from Calamvale on Sunday.
No arrests have been made at this stage.
— With Georgie Chumbley
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