Cash and items whose value does not exceed €3000 were stolen in a hold-up on a shop-keeper in Casolani street, Birkirkara, at around 20:30hrs CET on Wednesday.
The police confirmed the shopkeeper was closing his establishment in when a hooded man armed with a knife ordered him to enter the establishment and hand over the cash. The shopkeeper was then bound and the thief escaped with the cash and some other items.