\u00a0<\/a>entered the restaurant and threatened staff with a knife and what is believed to have been a gun, before demanding cash from the tills.<\/p>\n\u201cFortunately, no-one was injured, and enquiries remain ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n
An eyewitness, who works at the site, said that staff were left shaken following the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was terrifying,\u201d they said. \u201cThe staff are all so shaken \u2013 we were trembling in fear.<\/p>\n
“Some of the customers were hiding behind the tables for cover.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope they catch the scumbag, he needs stopping.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone with information should contact 101, quoting crime reference number 20WS\/31789U\/19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Terrified diners at McDonalds hide under tables as gunman storms into the Bescot Retail Park, Walsall. The Retail was sealed off by police after the robbery. Staff at the McDonalds restaurant were left \u2018trembling in fear\u2019 after a masked gunman stored in demanding cash from the tills. West Midlands Police sealed off the Bescot Retail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}