Update: Police arrest second suspect, full details shown below – Police said that they were called to 8 September Avenue, Xaghra, on Thursday, after a person, allegedly armed with a firearm, entered a grocery store.

The incident happened at around 8pm, when the alleged thief went on site with a car, entered the shop, pointed the weapon in the direction of the cashier, grabbed the cash drawer and then fled the scene with an amount of cash with the same vehicle, in which there were “probably accomplices,” Police said.

It resulted from further investigations that this car had been stolen some time before from Xewkija, it said.

While a search for the alleged thieves was underway, the Police said information was received that one of them was in Mgarr Harbour. “Police immediately went on site and arrested the man, who was about to try and escape to Malta.”

No one was injured in this case, with the Police carrying out investigations and a search for the other person who was allegedly involved in the robbery.

Update:

Police advised later on Friday that investigations led to the arrest of the other person who was allegedly involved in the robbery. The man, a 49-year-old Maltese national living in Cospicua, was arrested during this afternoon in an apartment in Xaghra.

The vehicle, which had been reported stolen and had been used in the crime, was found abandoned in Xaghra, Police said.

The man arrested at Mgarr Harbour last night is a 47-year old Italian national living in St. Paul’s Bay, Police said.

Magistrate Dr Simone Grech was informed of the case and appointed an inquiry.

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