1.   She was working as a petrol station cashier when armed robbers threatened her with a knife during a raid.

2.   A bank robbery in Bern has gone bad, a hostage has been killed and the robbers are threatening to kill more.

3.   Pelkey contended the robbers then threatened to kill him if he talked, and they left in their truck.

4.   After overpowering the two sentries, the robbers threatened them until they agreed to hand over keys to the arms depot.

5.   It said the Indian high commissioner and his wife were tied up and threatened by robbers.

6.   The salesclerk told police the robber had threatened her with a syringe during the holdup a day earlier.

7.   The security guards could do nothing since the robbers threatened to kill them if they screamed for help, he said.

8.   The robbers threatened two workers with shotguns and tied them up before escaping with a haul of valuables.