Detectives are appealing for witnesses to a burglary at the home of three elderly people in County Down.

A gang of men forced their way into the house in the Hilltown Road area of Kilcoo last night.

According to the PSNI the occupants were locked in a downstairs bedroom before the property was ransacked.

It is not yet known what, if anything, has been stolen.

The elderly residents, two women aged in their 90s and a man aged in his 80s, were not injured but left shaken by their ordeal.