Revelers, Employees of Pub and Restaurant Robbed at Gunpoint

Two masked gunmen robbed at dawn Friday revelers and employees at a pub and a restaurant in and near Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said the armed men entered Lock Stock pub in the area of Mar Mikhael at around 4:00 am, robbed the customers after threatening them and escaped in a silver Kia Cerato.

Less than 40 minutes after their robbery, the same men grabbed the cash of the employees of Rizkallah restaurant in Sid el-Baouchrieh and emptied the restaurant's cash register after threatening to kill them.

But this time they abandoned the Kia and took a black Mercedes parked near the restaurant to escape, said NNA.

The Internal Security Forces and forensic experts from the judicial police questioned the witnesses at the pub and restaurant, the agency said

Police also lifted fingerprints off the Kia to find the perpetrators, it added.

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