This is the horrifying moment a masked woman held a foot-long  knife to a nine-year-old boy's throat during a botched corner shop robbery. Schoolboy Manand Patel was threatened with the blade and ordered to open the till for the female robber's male accomplice at Nairne Convenience Store in Edinburgh. She then brandished the weapon at his father and uncle - threatening to kill them if they tried to help the youngster, who is a pupil at Leith Walk Primary. Manand screamed for his father and desperately tried to open the till for the male robber, but he could not reach.
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Manand Patel, 9, was threatened with a foot-long blade and told to open till
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Police are now hunting two robbers a male and woman in their mid-20s
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Masked woman also brandished the weapon at the boy's father and uncle
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CCTV shows boy's father Bharat, 44,  jumping on the counter to protect son
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Both suspects were described as being in their mid-20s and around 5ft tall
They had a knife, so we didn't want to take a risk,' said @placeholder, who said the woman looked 'unfit'.