Four pen­sion­ers were tied up and beat­en dur­ing a home in­va­sion in the mid-af­ter­noon on Thurs­day in San Juan.

The vic­tims, aged 73, 69, 67 and 63, live to­geth­er at Sad­dle Road, San Juan.

Two gun­men re­port­ed­ly forced their way in­to the house around 2 pm on May 8, or­der­ing them to lie on the floor.

Even though the vic­tims com­plied, the sus­pects be­gan beat­ing them about their bod­ies and pis­tol-whip­ping them as they com­plained they were tak­ing too long to fol­low their in­struc­tions.

The ban­dits lat­er went on to rob the four vic­tims of TT $326 in cash and a gold chain val­ued at TT $3,000 be­fore es­cap­ing on foot through the near­by riv­er, which runs along Sad­dle Road, San Juan.

Near­by res­i­dents were alert­ed to the in­ci­dent af­ter the vic­tims screamed for help.

The men were ad­vised by po­lice to seek med­ical at­ten­tion for the wounds they re­ceived.