Police arrest two men involved in Xaghra hold-up

Updated at 4:15pm

Police have arrested two men suspected of carrying out a hold-up in a shop at Xaghra, Gozo.

Police said that at around 8pm on Thursday, one of the men entered the shop armed with a firearm. The suspect demanded that the cashier give them the money and took off with the cash.

The suspect fled in a car, where the police suspect an accomplice was waiting. Further police investigations revealed that the car had been stolen a few moments before from Xewkija.

The police said it received information that one of the perpetrators was possibly in Mgarr waiting to embark on a vessel to Malta.

Officers went on-site and arrested him.

No one was hurt in this incident.

On Friday, investigations led to the arrest of the other person allegedly involved in the robbery. The man, who is a 49-year-old Maltese national living in Cospicua, was arrested this afternoon from an apartment in Xagħra.

The vehicle used in the same crime and which was reported stolen, was also found abandoned in Xagħra itself.

The man who was arrested yesterday is a 47-year-old Italian national living in St. Paul’s Bay.

Police investigations are still ongoing.

Magistrate Simone Grech is leading an inquiry.