An 18-year-old was among two peo­ple de­tained in con­nec­tion with an at­tempt­ed rob­bery at a bar in Mara­bel­la, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing. Of­fi­cers al­so seized a firearm and cut­lass.

Po­lice yes­ter­day said that around 12.29 am on Oc­to­ber 3, the pro­pri­etor of a bar along Union Road, Mara­bel­la, was con­duct­ing busi­ness when two men en­tered the es­tab­lish­ment and an­nounced a rob­bery.

The men or­dered the pa­trons to lie on the floor, while one of the sus­pects point­ed what ap­peared to be a firearm at the pro­pri­etor and at­tempt­ed to gain ac­cess to an area of the bar.

How­ev­er, the gate was se­cured.

The men sub­se­quent­ly left the es­tab­lish­ment with­out tak­ing any­thing of val­ue. A Mara­bel­la pa­trol, in­clud­ing PC Ram­nath and PC Adams, lat­er de­tained two men in the vicin­i­ty.

The sus­pects were iden­ti­fied as 18- and 20-year-old men.

One re­volver con­tain­ing three rounds of .38 Spe­cial am­mu­ni­tion and one cut­lass were re­cov­ered.

Po­lice Con­sta­ble Ram­nath is con­tin­u­ing in­quiries.