A takeaway worker has told how he was stabbed in the face and while a co-worker was stabbed in the neck in a terrifying attack at Dixy Chicken.

The popular Middlesbrough takeaway was taped off by police on Saturday evening after the stabbing. Footage on social media showed a man with blood coming down from his neck after the incident as staff restrained a man behind the counter.

A worker at the Linthorpe Road venue has now spoken of the ordeal, telling how the man suddenly took the knife out of his pocket after entering the private area of the takeaway and threatening staff over an apparent problem with his order before launching into an attack.

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The worker, who suffered a stab wound but was not taken to hospital, told Teesside Live about the horrifying ordeal, which unfolded shortly before 9pm.

He said: "A customer first called at the shop two times saying: 'where is my food?' We said that it was five to 10 minutes late and that the driver was on his way and it would be there very shortly, but the traffic was so much.

"After 10 minutes he came to the shop and said: 'I want to talk to the manager here', who he was talking to on the phone as well before he came to the shop. There was another person serving at the counter and he called the manager, They came to the counter and asked him what happened [and] said the car would be there shortly."

The worker claims the customer then entered the side door of the takeaway, which is a private area for staff only. They said: "The colleague who was serving at the counter held him and told him that he cannot enter here as this is a private area. Then [the customer] was saying: 'I want to talk to the manager.' We said he could talk to them but after he got out from the counter.

"I was at the back and I went to the front and grabbed him and held him from the back and said it was a private area and that he can't enter here. There was another colleague of mine who came and three of us were holding him. First, he was abusing, and then he started punching and then he suddenly took the knife out of his pocket and just started stabbing us.

"I got stabbed in my face, my colleague got a stab in the neck and another guy got stabbed as well. We held him there for 10 minutes and we broke his knife and a manager called the police meanwhile and the police came in 10 minutes."

The fast food shop was cordoned off by police around 9.pm and crime scene officers dressed in white suits were seen entering the site. While the cordon had been removed the following morning, police tape remained on the floor outside the Linthorpe Road takeaway.

The worker says the man was arrested at the scene although this has not yet been confirmed by police.

A North East Ambulance Service spokesperson confirmed it was called to an incident outside the takeaway to a "patient suffering a neck wound," and took one patient to hospital. Teesside Live has contacted Cleveland Police for more information.

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