Robbed at knifepoint

A woman who had just shut her shop was robbed of her handbag at knifepoint in Swieqi yesterday evening, the police said. The 37-year-old had to be taken to hospital to be treated for shock. She was nearly home after returning from her shop in Tower...

A woman who had just shut her shop was robbed of her handbag at knifepoint in Swieqi yesterday evening, the police said.

The 37-year-old had to be taken to hospital to be treated for shock.

She was nearly home after returning from her shop in Tower Road, Sliema, when a man wielding a knife emerged from his car, demanded her handbag and escaped.

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