The police have arrested a number of people in relation with Wednesday’s hold-up of the Casino' di Venezia in Vittoriosa.

Investigations into the hold-up, during which hundreds of thousands of euros were stolen, are continuing.

The thieves are believed to have dashed from the casino' to the edge of the quay at Fort St Angelo in a stolen Pajero. They then drove the vehicle into the sea and escaped on a speedboat.

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