KAJANG, MALYSIA: For several minutes yesterday, two robbers used a hammer and an axe to try to break the glass display case at a goldsmith's shop in Semenyih as a third man stood guard.

The glass proved too tough to crack, let alone smash.

Their laboured attempts took their attention off the shop staff, and the robbers were forced to flee empty-handed after a staff member triggered an alarm.

Before they ran, one of the robbers fired his pistol twice in frustration but no one was injured. One bullet hit the ceiling, the other hit the floor.

This was the second time this year that the Jin Wei Goldsmith's shop in Jalan Besar was a target of robbers.

The men, in ski masks and armed with pistols, had walked in at 11am and ordered customers and staff to stand by a wall.

When the alarm began blaring, they fled in a gold-coloured car which had been reported stolen in Ampang earlier this year.

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