Police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at a takeaway store in Quakers Hill overnight that’s left a female employee with a laceration to her head and hand.

About 8pm (Monday 6 June 2016) a 50-year-old woman was working at a takeaway store on Douglas Road and was out the back of the store cleaning when two men entered.

One of the pair approached the woman and assaulted her with a metal pole or bat, striking her in the head and the hand, causing large lacerations, while the second man stole cash from the till.

Both men ran from the store prior to the arrival of police.

The woman was taken to hospital where she remains in a stable condition and is expected to undergo surgery.

A crime scene was established while detectives from Quakers Hill Local Area Command commenced an investigation.