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A machete-wielding raider terrorised staff at a Birmingham Greggs store as he stole cash from the safe – before saying a cheery ‘see you bab’ to a passerby as he fled.

The masked intruder brandished a fearsome 2ft blade at two workers inside the chain’s Kingsbury Road branch in Erdington .

The store's manager said her blood ran cold as she was confronted by the criminal.

He ordered that the safe be opened – but escaped with just a handful of loose change because so little cash was inside.

The employee, who was worked for Greggs for more than 20 years, told the Mail: “I was doing some paperwork and assumed it was a customer as we’d just opened up.

“Then this 2ft machete appeared. It was terrifying and I burst out crying.

“He told us to go to the back of the store and open the safe for him.

“But he only got away with a bit of loose change because we don’t carry money in the safe anymore.

“He ran off – and then said: ‘See you bab” to one of the girls from a nearby newsagent who was outside.”

The store had been open for just 15 minutes when the knifeman struck at 7.15am last Tuesday, July 4.

The manager - who would not be named - said the raider was clad all in black and covered his face with a hoodie and a scarf.

He was thought to have loitered outside the shop and fled in a white BMW.

She said: “You hear of these things happening but you never think it will happen to you.

“I froze and just did what he said.

“It was over in a matter of minutes but it felt like forever.”

Several Greggs stores in the West Midlands have been raided in recent months.

Robbers dressed as decorators struck at a bakery in Union Street, Wednesbury, at 7am on January 21 - and apologised to staff as they fled .

A branch at the Fox and Goose shopping centre in Ward End was hit in March and a third was targeted in Aldridge High Street last December .

West Midlands Police confirmed officers were investigating the latest raid.

Anyone with information should call police on 101.