Elderly women attacked and robbed in NI

Police are investigating the assault and robbery of a pensioner in her south Belfast home last night.

Police are investigating the assault and robbery of a pensioner in her south Belfast home last night.

The woman, who is believed to be in her 70s, was assaulted by two men who called to her home at Wamsbeck Street in the Stranmillis area at 5 p.m. yesterday. The men reportedly stole £20 sterling before escaping.

Also under investigation is a separate robbery on a 88-year-old woman at her home at Mashona Court in east Belfast. After ransacking the house the men escaped with an undisclosed sum of money.