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16/09/2003
Elderly mother and daughter attacked during robbery
Police are appealing for information after a 96-year-old mother and her 65-year-old daughter were attacked during a robbery in Co Down yesterday.
The two women where attacked by two men who apparently followed them into their Gilford home at around 2.20pm yesterday.
The men, who were armed with knives, slapped the mother about the face and then attacked the woman's daughter leaving her with a leg injury. She was later treated in hospital.
The intruders then proceeded to rip out the telephone line before ransacking the house and escaping with an undisclosed sum of money.
Anyone who may have seen a red car in the grounds of nearby Tullylish Presbyterian Church shortly before the robbery is asked to contact police.
(MB)
The two women where attacked by two men who apparently followed them into their Gilford home at around 2.20pm yesterday.
The men, who were armed with knives, slapped the mother about the face and then attacked the woman's daughter leaving her with a leg injury. She was later treated in hospital.
The intruders then proceeded to rip out the telephone line before ransacking the house and escaping with an undisclosed sum of money.
Anyone who may have seen a red car in the grounds of nearby Tullylish Presbyterian Church shortly before the robbery is asked to contact police.
(MB)
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