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Robber meets match with defiant shopkeeper

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EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 17 (UPI) -- An armed robber picked the wrong Scottish locale to enter last weekend and was chased off by a defiant shopkeeper in a threatening karate stance.

Edinburgh shopkeeper Mohammed Afzah said that when a man entered his store last weekend brandishing a knife, he immediately drew upon the combat knowledge he learned while being a Pakistani prime minister's bodyguard, The Scotsman reported Tuesday.

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In addition to his stint as a political bodyguard, Afzah had received military training while in Pakistan's security force.

Nonetheless, the 39-year-old said he was nervous when he took his defensive karate stance Sunday against his store's armed intruder, The Scotsman said.

"I was worried because he was a big guy, maybe 6-foot-1, and he didn't seem like a druggie," he said. "He seemed very serious, a controlled kind of person."

Encouraged by the fact the unidentified man immediately ran from the store, Afzah told the newspaper he would not hesitate to react that way again.

"This was the first time someone had tried to rob me," he said. "But I would do the same again."

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