A TERRIFIED woman was confronted by three armed raiders in her living room early today.

Sara Badat, 52, discovered the thugs ransacking her home when she went to investigate a noise.

The masked men bundled Mrs Badat, who does not speak English, into the the hall of her house on Gregson Field, Great Lever.

When she tried to get back in the room one of the men pointed a handgun at the terrified woman while the other two coolly carried on disconnecting the television and video.

They escaped with their haul, including a watch and vouchers, through the ground floor kitchen window they had already forced to get into the house.

Mrs Badat then woke her husband Gulam, 68, who had slept through the incident in a ground floor bedroom.

He said: "She was shaking and terrified. She told me they had pushed her and pointed a gun at her."

Police are investigating.

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