article_snippet: The duo, armed with a three-foot long machete and half a pool cue, stormed into the Strawberry Duck in Clayton, north Manchester.
article_snippet: The masked men stormed behind the bar at the Strawberry Duck in north Manchester during a terrifying pub raid in Manchester .
article_snippet: The pair were wielding a three-foot long machete and half a pool cue, which The pair used to threaten staff and customers .
article_snippet: The balaclava wearing raiders bolted the pub's doors shut before rushing behind the bar at the Strawberry Duck in north Manchester and threatening staff in the middle of a Saturday lunchtime.
article_snippet: Frightened workers opened the till, before being marched downstairs by Frightened workers captors who then bound Frightened workers hands  together with cable ties.
article_snippet: The moment of kindness happened as he accomplice was out of the room ransacking the pub for more money.
article_snippet: A police spokesman said The masked men left the pub with a quantity of cash and ran off down the canal in the direction of the city centre.
article_snippet: The masked duo got The masked duo hands on the pub's takings after forcing staff to open the till .
article_snippet: the robbers bound together the hands of terrified staff and customers after ordering the robbers into a downstairs room .
article_snippet: I would also like to pay tribute to the pub's owners and staff who managed to stay calm and reassure the customers who had been caught up in this terrifying situation. '
highlights_snippet: Masked raiders armed with machete and pool cue storm Manchester pub .
  
highlights_snippet: Bolt doors and tie up staff and customers to empty till at Strawberry Duck .
  
highlights_snippet: Men escaped with quantity of cash and are still being hunted by police .