Chandigarh, Sept. 23 -- In a brazen robbery attempt, two unidentified men tried to break into the Reliance Jewels shop in Manimajra after threatening the on-duty security guard at knifepoint in the wee hours of Monday.

The robbers, however, were forced to flee empty-handed after the quick-thinking guard raised the alarm.

The guard, Surinder Kumar, narrated to police that two masked men approached him around 2.40 am. "One of them suddenly placed a knife on my neck and threatened to kill me if I made a noise," the guard alleged.

While one of the robbers kept the guard pinned, the other proceeded to break open one of the two locks of the shop's shutter.

Seizing the right moment, the guard said, he managed to free himself, run from the sp...