A PREGNANT shop worker and two colleagues were threatened with a sawn-off shotgun by masked raiders who burst into a late-opening store.

Police are hunting the two thugs who terrified staff at the One-Stop, in Heath Road, Bedworth, at 10pm on Friday.

The pair, brandishing a sawn-off double-barrelled shotgun and a handgun, ran into the store and screamed instructions to staff.

One put the shotgun to the head of a terrified Rachel Zecca and told her to hand over money and phone cards.

The second man, who was waving the handgun above his head, told the store?s security guard to lie down on his front then turned to seven-months-pregnant Sarah Dawns and said: ?I?m a nice robber so you can kneel down instead.?

The robbers made their getaway in a dark blue P-reg Volvo which is believed to have headed off in the direction of Goodyers End.

Branch manager Carol Steeples said: ?Brave is not the word to describe these two girls. Sarah said to me ?they?re expecting me to be in a ball of tears but I refuse to be like that?.

?Both were back at work the following day, which was amazing. They?re being very cool and collected about it.?

Detectives believe the incident may be linked to a robbery last month at Frankie and Benny?s restaurant in Bermuda Park, Nuneaton, in which two gun-wielding raiders escaped with cash after threatening staff and terrifying customers.

In the latest raid, the first offender is white, 5ft 10in tall and slim. He wore a light coloured Adidas top with dark stripes on the sleeves, dark blue track-suit bottoms tucked into green football socks, and white Reebok trainers.

He carried a dark metal handgun and wore a black woollen balaclava.

His accomplice is white, 5ft 9in tall and slim. He has blue eyes and wore a dark blue hooded jacket, with a purple horizontal stripe across the chest, and dark jogging bottoms.

He carried a sawn-off double-barrelled shotgun and wore a blue plastic motorcycle faceguard under a black balaclava.

Witnesses should contact Nuneaton CID on 024 7664 1111 or the confidential Crimestoppers hotline on 0800 555111.