Updated | Police arrest youth carrying air gun on public transport bus

Add picture of BB gun

Police from the Rapid Intervention Unit stopped a public transport bus in the afternoon on its way into San Gwann, on suspicion that one of its passengers was carrying an unlicensed firearm.

The anonymous tip-off led to police officers tracking down the Arriva bus at the lower end of Naxxar Road, on its way into San Gwann, where a youth wearing a pink polo shirt and baseball cap was apprehended.

The search produced a BB gun, a type of air gun that shoots BB projectiles, which come in a spherical shape, and usually used for bird hunting.