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84-year-old shaken by break-in Elderly women targeted by robbers
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An 84-year-old woman has been left badly shaken after a burglary at her home in east Belfast. Two women aged in their 80s have been left badly shaken after burglars broke into their homes in separate robberies in Belfast and Newtownabbey.
At about 2000 GMT on Saturday, the woman was disturbed by two men who had broken into her Titania Street home by a forced kitchen window. The first burglary took place at about 2000 GMT on Saturday when two men broke into the home of an 84-year-old woman in Titania Street in east Belfast.
One of the men kept her in her chair while the other searched the house. They escaped with cash. They kept her in a chair while they searched the house and stole cash.
The pensioner was not physically injured. Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them. Two and a half hours later, four masked men robbed an 86-year-old women at her home at Harmin Park in Glengormley.
The gang forced their way into the pensioner's property shortly before 2230 GMT, searched the house and stole money.
Neither woman was injured during the burglaries, but they were both left extremely shaken by their ordeals.
The police have appealed for anyone with information about either robbery to contact them.