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Robbers held the U.K. set Sports Team astatine weapon constituent Tuesday astir "10 minutes into" their U.S. tour.
The set revealed the concern occurred astatine a Starbucks successful Vallejo, California, aboriginal successful the morning.
"Man runs successful saying immoderate guys are smashing into a van," the group's Instagram read. "Ran retired to effort to halt it and find masked guys ransacking the van. Start yelling and they propulsion retired a gun. Police effect was ‘submit an online report.’
"Lost a batch of idiosyncratic gear, but they didn’t get the instruments truthful driving connected to Sacramento to play tonight," the set added. "They tin instrumentality our Nintendo Switches but they tin ne'er instrumentality our quality to play stone songs astir motorways.
The UK set Sports Team had a weapon pulled connected them portion robbers stole items from the band's van. (Lorne Thomson/Redferns)
"In each seriousness beauteous shocking however resigned everyone seemed to beryllium to it. ‘It happens’. 9am astatine immoderate petrol presumption Starbucks. Wild."
— Sports Team"In each seriousness beauteous shocking however resigned everyone seemed to beryllium to it. ‘It happens’. 9am astatine immoderate petrol presumption Starbucks. Wild."
Fox News Digital reached retired to Vallejo Police Department for further information.
The band's laptops, in-ear monitors, idiosyncratic items and cameras were taken successful the robbery but not instruments "because the backmost of the van is fortified," frontman Alex Rice told Sky News.
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Sports Team said it was "pretty shocking however resigned everyone seemed to beryllium to" the scary situation. (Lorne Thomson/Redferns)
Three of the six members' passports were besides taken.
"The astir contiguous interest for america is passports, to beryllium honest," helium told the outlet. "Three of america had our passports taken.
"It's a 'try to get to the consulate and get that sorted for Christmas' benignant of situation."
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Rob Knaggs, Oli Dewdney, Al Greenwood, Alex Rice, Henry Young and Ben Mack of Sports Team execute astatine Webster Hall connected Nov. 9 successful New York City. Three of the members had their passports stolen successful the robbery. (Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images)
The radical volition proceed their U.S. circuit arsenic they beforehand their upcoming album, "Boys These Days."
"We're truly fortunate successful that we're capable to bash that," Rice told Sky News. "We've got a batch of friends successful San Francisco. People person been incredibly supportive.
"It's a unspeakable happening to person happened, but we're fortunate not to person had our existent instruments taken — which has happened to america successful the past."
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