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Will Stewart & Tiffany Lo

Heroic staff grab weapon from robber and fight him off with fire extinguisher

Two brave shopkeepers fended off an armed intruder during an attempted robbery at their mobile phone shop.

Security camera footage shows a masked man brandishing a stun gun while threatening the staff to open the cashier.

But the pair remained calm and worked as a team to fight off the intruder.

The 29-year-old manager grabbed the robber's handgun and pointed it towards the robber in defence before he pulled out a grenade.

The robber walked into the shop with a weapon and threatened the staff to empty the cashier (Interior ministry; EAST2WEST NEWS)

While she was distracting the intruder with the weapon, her shop assistant emptied a fire extinguisher on the robber and threw a chair at him amid scenes of chaos.

The robber, who wore a hooded jacket and covered his face with a surgical face mask, fled the scene empty-handed.

The staff smoked the robber with extinguisher and triggered a hidden alarm (Interior ministry; EAST2WEST NEWS)
Police arrested a 40-year-old suspect after the attempted robbery (Interior ministry; EAST2WEST NEWS)

According to Megapolis , the shop staff had triggered a hidden alarm which alerted to police to the shop.

Russian national guards arrived and arrested a 40-year-old suspect, whose name has not been disclosed.

Officers found an array of weapons including cartridges, a baseball bat and fake grenades in the suspect's car.

A decision is yet to be made on charges.

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