A MAN armed with a cosh was forced to flee empty-handed after an attempted armed robbery in Salford failed.
The guard had just placed a cash box he had collected in Blackfriars Road into the security van when a man approached him brandishing the six-inch weapon.
The driver of the security van activated the alarm and the offender to ran off.
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