A 39-year-old man from Żurrieq is under arrest after he allegedly attacked and robbed a 42-year-old man from Birkirkara, at 1.30 a. m. yesterday, the police said.

The police said they were tipped off by a telephone call that a man had been set upon at City Gate, Valletta. Officers went on site and then searched the area and came across a man near the Mall Garden, in Floriana, who fitted the description given by the victim and by several people who happened to be on the scene of the incident.

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