A man has been taken to hospital after seven armed men broke into his home in Derry on Tuesday evening.

PSNI Detective Sergeant Paula McGale said police have opened an aggravated burglary investigation after the attack at a house at Ashgrove Park in Magherafelt.

She said the men were masked and were armed with hammers and knives.

The man living in the house was taken to hospital after he was assaulted during the attack.

He is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

The attackers fled the scene in a “shiny, dark coloured BMW” and police investigating who owns it and where it was in the hours before the attack.

Anyone with any information is urged to contact police in nearby Cookstown.