A 28-year-old woman from Rabat was injured early yesterday morning when she resisted an assailant who tried to take her handbag.

The woman was walking to work in Belvedere Street in Gżira at around 6.30 a.m. when she was assaulted by an armed and hooded robber wielding some sort of knife, the police said.

She resisted the robber who left empty-handed.

The woman was grazed by the knife.

Duty magistrate Doreen Clarke was informed about the case.

Police investigations are under way.

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