A 17-year-old Ca­roni school­girl was pis­tol-whipped by ban­dits who stormed her fam­i­ly’s home rob­bing every­one in­side on Tues­day night.

Po­lice said the fam­i­ly of five and their neigh­bour were at their Ca­roni South­bank Road, Kel­ly Vil­lage, home at around 8.35 pm when three masked ban­dits stormed the house.

One of the sus­pects was armed with a gun and struck the girl on her head, be­fore hit­ting the girl’s fa­ther on the left side of his face when he hes­is­tat­ed in hand­ing over the keys to a car that was parked out­side.

The ban­dits stole two cell­phones and the keys be­fore try­ing to flee in the parked car, be­fore re­al­is­ing that it had no bat­tery.

The sus­pects threw the keys away be­fore run­ning away.

Of­fi­cers from the Ca­roni Po­lice Sta­tion are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.