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Elderly women targeted by robbers 84-year-old shaken by break-in
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Two women aged in their 80s have been left badly shaken after burglars broke into their homes in separate robberies in Belfast and Newtownabbey. An 84-year-old woman has been left badly shaken after a burglary at her home in east Belfast.
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. 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.
They kept her in a chair while they searched the house and stole cash. One of the men kept her in her chair while the other searched the house. They escaped with cash.
Two and a half hours later, four masked men robbed an 86-year-old women at her home at Harmin Park in Glengormley. The pensioner was not physically injured. Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them.
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.