Police arrest bakery robbery suspects

Police late on Thursday arrested two men in connection with a bakery robbery committed earlier in the day in Limassol.

The pair, 21 and 17, were travelling in a car which police officers on patrol noticed moving suspiciously in the area where the bakery was robbed at around 11pm.

Officers stopped and searched the vehicle and found a bag with screwdriver and a portable speaker.

The teenager was arrested after failing to provide a satisfactory explanation on how the items came to be in his possession.

The bag matched the description of one held by one of the two armed robbers at the bakery while the two young men also fitted the description of the perpetrators.

Both suspects were taken to a police station where the 17-year-old was questioned and allegedly admitted committing the robbery.

Evidence also points to the involvement of the 21-year-old, police said.

Both are under arrest pending further investigations.

The bakery was robbed by two armed men at 2am on Thursday.

The hooded men smashed the glass entrance, entered, and after threatening a female employee with a bat and a knife, took money from the till and fled.

Together with another person who was waiting outside they fled in an unknown