Police are understood to be hunting armed robbers after a raid on a Tesco Express store this morning.

Three patrol cars and an ambulance were at the scene in Frankley Beeches Road following the incident.

Sources claim an armed robbery had taken place, although it is not thought anyone was injured.

West Midlands Police has been approached for comment.

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