Cash was stolen this afternoon in a hold-up in a shop in Birkirkara, the police said.

A hooded man armed with a knife entered the shop in Domenico Cachia Street at about 5 p.m. and demanded cash. The man managed to escape. No one was injured.

The haul is believed to have been of a few hundred euro.

The police are investigating.

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