Gangs of men broke into the homes of two elderly women in Northern Ireland were last night.
In the first incident, a woman in her nineties was left badly shaken and with a bruise on her face after three men broke into her home on Chichester Avenue off the Antrim Road in north Belfast.
The gang escaped with a small amount of cash.
Elsewhere, a 79-year-old woman in Scarva, Co Down, was held hostage in a room after awaking to find three masked men in her house.
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The raiders ransacked her home in the Moody Park area but escaped empty-handed, a PSNI spokeswoman said. The victim was badly shocked but physically unharmed, she said.
There was no indication the two incidents were related.