Updated Wednesday 9am with details of second robbery

Police received reports of a second hold-up at a lotto booth in Burmarrad, hours after an armed robbery in a lotto booth took place in Birkirkara on Tuesday.

A police spokesperson told Times of Malta that police received a report of the robbery at Burmarrad at 6pm. The thief had escaped by the time the police arrived on site. 

According to the 43-year-old cashier, the robber was also armed with a knife. 

She was not injured, but the robber made away with some cash. 

The second robbery came hours after a robbery took place at 3.30pm at a lotto booth on the busy Triq Dun Karm, known as the Birkirkara bypass.

The masked thief, armed with a knife, put his hand through the window to grab cash from the cashier, a 57-year-old woman. The cashier was injured as she struggled to stop him from stealing the money.

A medical team assisted the woman, who was taken by ambulance to Mater Dei Hospital for observation.

The police did not say how much was stolen.

The thief fled the scene, and a search is still underway. 

Magistrate Philip Galea Farrugia is leading an inquiry into the case, while police investigations are still ongoing.