Video shows staff running for cover in what is believed to be a revenge attack after a bullet in a pizza box was reported to police

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Police are investigating after a hooded man threw a box of 70 lit fireworks inside a takeaway in a suspected revenge attack.

CCTV footage shows staff running for cover at Hello Pizza in Liverpool, before the fireworks exploded at about 9.30pm on Monday.

One staff member can be seen leaping over the counter and fleeing towards the kitchen after he realised the exit was blocked by the fireworks.

The box then exploded inside the shop, bouncing off the ceiling and walls and only narrowly missing the employees trapped in the kitchen.

The manager of Hello Pizza, who did not want to be named, told the Liverpool Echo he believed the shop was targeted after a shotgun pellet was found inside a pizza box on Saturday night.

He said shots were fired on Stanley Road, in the Kirkdale area of Liverpool, at about 9.30pm and two hours later staff found a gunshot pellet in a pizza box in the takeaway.

He said: “We had to ring police and report it otherwise our insurance would have been invalidated. Those involved must have seen that as us giving them up to the police and attacked us in this way to show us that.

“We are just trying to run our business and earn a living and now my staff are too frightened to come to work.”

Police are reviewing the CCTV footage as part of their investigation.

