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A 50-year-old doubles vendor from Penal was beaten and robbed in her home on the afternoon of December 4.

According to the police, around 2.45 pm, the woman, who lives on Wilson Road, was in her kitchen when two men entered.

Both men were armed with cutlasses. One of the men struck her several times with a cutlass, while the other tied her hands with a rope and covered her eyes and mouth with a white cloth.