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Two shoppers were attacked by a man armed with a screwdriver in a busy Tesco.

The victims - said to be a man and a woman - have been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after the ordeal at in the Spital Hill area of Sheffield, near Burngreave.

Witnesses said one woman was covered in blood and yelping after the attack at roughly 1.30pm today.

"I was there when it happened, the poor woman was screaming covered in blood," one man wrote on Facebook .

"I'm guessing it was random because the woman who it happened to looked like just a normal lady doing her shopping.

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"I just heard her screaming, covered in blood and it looked liked security was chasing someone down a part where only staff can go."

The supermarket has been evacuated.

Engineer Barry Holden was in Tesco 24-hour superstore with his partner at around 1.30pm when he suddenly heard a woman scream out.

The 35-year-old, from Sheffield, South Yorks., said: "We heard a woman scream out as a security guard suddenly ran towards us.

"As we turned to see where he was going we saw a woman had fallen to the floor.

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"She appeared to be in her 50s and looked like a normal middle-class woman.

"We could see she was in total shock, within seconds staff had surrounded her and were trying to bandage a wound - she had blood pouring from the left side of her head.

"There was a lot of blood.

"We didn't see the person who did it, we just saw the security guard belt it after them and then into the back where the staff go, we could hear a lot of commotion.

"Before we knew it, a member of staff had come up to us and taken our basket from us and told us we had to leave.

"We were so shocked, we just wanted to get out of there as quickly as we could, we did not know what was happening.

"We didn't know if we were in danger."

A suspect has been arrested at the scene and officers are examining CCTV footage in the area.

There is a huge police presence around the supermarket.

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The large Tesco store is situated near a Pure Gym in the inner city area.

A South Yorkshire Police spokesman said: "It was reported that a man and a woman had been assaulted by a man carrying a screwdriver outside of the Tesco store.

"Both have been taken to hospital for treatment.

"Their injuries are described as serious.

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"A man has been detained at the scene and remains in police custody.

"There is a large police presence in the area at present and the store has been evacuated as officers carry out enquiries and examine CCTV footage."

A Tesco spokesperson said: “We are aware of an incident at our Sheffield Savile Extra store and are supporting police with their enquiries”.

The Yorkshire Ambulance Service declined to add to the statement from South Yorkshire Police.