A man was arrested by the police at around 10.30am on Sunday morning for trying to steal various items from a number of buses at the Bus Terminus in Valletta.

A bus driver noticed a man acting suspiciously on a bus and when he and the bus driver went on to bus to investigate they found a man trying to steal the stereo. The thief then broke a window and jumped out of the bus. A number of coins fell out of his pockets as he was jumping out.

The 30-year-old man was arrested by the traffic policeman on duty at the terminus. Nothing was missing from the bus but a small sum of money was missing from the adjacent bus. The 30-year-old man holds Maltese citizenship but was born in Libya.