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<\/p>\n\u201cThis was a particularly distressing incident for the victim and we can only be thankful that she was not seriously injured”<\/p>\n
Police are working to trace those responsible<\/p>\n
Police<\/a> in Lanarkshire<\/a> have launched a manhunt for three masked robbers who left a householder injured and “extremely shaken”.<\/p>\n The terrifying incident happened in the Coalburn area, near the B7078 road, around 10.20pm on Sunday, June 14.<\/p>\n The 63-year-old woman within the property suffered a minor injury and was treated by paramedics, she was left understandably extremely shaken as a result.<\/p>\n The three suspects are described as wearing face coverings, one was wearing a black hat and black clothing, the second was wearing grey jogging bottoms and it is unknown what the third was wearing.<\/p>\n Cash, jewellery and two cars – a blue VW Tiguan and a blue Ford Fiesta – were taken.<\/p>\n Police are carrying out high-visibility patrols in the local area, alongside extensive enquiries to establish who is responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n Detective Inspector Vicki Douglas, from Lanarkshire CID, said: \u201cThis was a particularly distressing incident for the victim and we can only be thankful that she was not seriously injured.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are appealing for any witnesses, local residents with private CCTV or possible dashcam footage from the local area to please come forward. We are also keen to hear from anyone who believes they may have seen any suspicious vehicles prior to the incident.<\/p>\n \u201cAnyone with information which may assist our investigation, no matter how small, should call police on 101, quoting incident 3460 of 14 June. Alternatively, you can call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, if you wish to remain anonymous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis was a particularly distressing incident for the victim and we can only be thankful that she was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1029229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,14683,530,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-1029228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-glasgow","tag-britain","tag-glasgow","tag-great-britain","tag-lanarkshire","tag-police-scotland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116757286006133208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}