Demanding beer, Russians threaten to bomb shop
January 16th, 2012 - 11:05 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Moscow, Jan 16 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Two men in Russia’s St. Petersburg have been held for allegedly robbing beer from a shop by threatening the shop assistant with a hand grenade.
“After they got two beer bottles, the men put the grenade on the counter and ran off,” a police spokesman said Monday.
The two were detained soon afterwards.
This was the second time a grenade was used in the city in recent days. Last week, a man set off a hand grenade in a conflict, leaving one man injured.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
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