India, Oct. 7 -- A gang of robbers broke into the home of a Goa doctor in north Goa, tied up the family and made off with cash and jewellery of an unspecified amount, police said on Tuesday, citing statements by the family.

Police said the robbery at the house of Dr Mahendra Ghanekar, a senior gynaecologist at a government hospital, was carried out by five to six robbers. They entered the house in Mapusa at about 3am on Tuesday.

The doctor, his wife, who is also a doctor, their 14-year-old daughter and his octogenarian mother, were at home at the time. The family told the police that the robbers, armed with knives and sticks, spoke in Hindi and had covered their faces.

"One of the robbers had entered the house by cutting open a window ...