Thief throws away stolen money

Two hooded foreign men, one of them armed with a pointed instrument, held up the owner of a supermarket in Triq ix-Xitwa, Qawra this afternoon, the police said. They said that at the time there were no clients in the supermarket and the thieves fled...

Two hooded foreign men, one of them armed with a pointed instrument, held up the owner of a supermarket in Triq ix-Xitwa, Qawra this afternoon, the police said.

They said that at the time there were no clients in the supermarket and the thieves fled carrying cash and a laptop computer.

The police said a man tried to intercept the thief who had been carrying the cash, but he managed to get away, after dropping the bag containing the cash.

No one was injured.

Investigations are continuing.

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