Dad reveals how a masked gang took his daughters hostage and ransacked his house

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A terrified dad has told how four masked men took his young daughters hostage with knives and threatened to “kill” his son before ransacking his home.

Mohammed Ali, 39, woke to “panicked screams” from his girls, aged seven and 12, as robbers burst through his front door with machetes, a meat cleaver and a brick.

The HGV driver first saw two of the intruders on the stairs of his semi-detached four-bed home as another held a knife against his daughters’ throats in their living room.

And when his son emerged from his upstairs bedroom seconds later, one of the men chilling yelled “Kill him! Kill him!” before advancing towards the 18-year-old.

Mohammed said he pushed the lad back into his bedroom and ran to a bathroom, where they took refuge while the robbers hacked at the doors with their machetes. (Video: Mohammed Ali/SWNS)