Demanding beer, Russians threaten to bomb shop

Two men in Russia's St. Petersburg have been held for allegedly robbing beer from a shop by threatening the shop assistant with a hand grenade.

"After they got two beer bottles, the men put the grenade on the counter and ran off," a police spokesman said Monday.

The two were detained soon afterwards.u00a0This was the second time a grenade was used in the city in recent days. Last week, a man set off a hand grenade in a conflict, leaving one man injured.

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