A hooded man armed with a firearm escaped with under €50 in cash during a hold up in Pitkali Road, Attard, yesterday evening.

The police said the man demanded cash from the shop assistant at a confectionery. There was no one else in the shop at the time. No one was injured.

The hold-up was the second on a confectionery in as many days. The first was in Hamrun on Sunday.

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