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Last night we showed you some hapless robbers on a Saturday misadventure at a Chinese Grocery Store in Belize City.  Fortunately no one was hurt, and the shopkeeper went and ducked behind a cooler.  

But, last night in Orange Walk town at Sun Luck store, there was nowhere for 25 year old proprietor Hong Zhen Qiu to hide.  At 7:15, two men stormed in.  One of them grabbed him around the neck and put a knife to his throat, while the other pointed a gun right at his head and demanded money.  Qui handed over almost a thousand dollars in cash form his draw and the men dashed out.  But before they rode off on bicycle, they fired a shot and hit the counter.  Fortunately no one was hurt, and police retrieved a .38 slug from the counter.  

The cops have been reviewing the surveillance video, but no arrest has been made.  

There was also the report of a robbery or an attempt at a pharmacy on New Road this evening around 4:30.  Police at the scene told us no one was hurt, and nothing significant occurred.