This chilling image shows the moment masked gang members clutching a sawn-off shotgun and machete walk up to the door of a family home before forcing their way inside to raid it.

The CCTV snap shows four dark figures outside a lavish property just minutes before they subjected its occupants, including young girls, to a 'terrifying ordeal'.

In the house at the time were two women, aged 36 and 57, a 64-year-old man, and three girls, aged eight, 10 and 12.

The gang, who tied up the victims, then fled the property in Leeds, West Yorkshire, with jewellery after they assaulted the two women and 12-year-old girl so they would open a safe.

This chilling image shows the moment masked gang members clutching a sawn-off shotgun and machete walk up to the door of a family home - before forcing their way inside to raid it.

Police are now on the hunt for the men following the 11pm raid in at the Low Moor Side Lane property, New Farnley, on Tuesday, September 27.

Detective Sergeant Al Burns, of Leeds District Crime Team, said: 'This was an absolutely terrifying ordeal for this family to be confronted and attacked by armed men who had broken into their home late at night.

'There were young children involved and the victims have been left very badly traumatised.'

The culprits confronted the younger women and roused the other occupants of the house from their beds.

They tied up the elderly man and demanded to know where the safe was.

Both women and the 12-year-old girl were assaulted and pushed around and the older woman had jewellery pulled from her wrist.

The two women were later treated for minor injuries by ambulance staff.

The men searched the house before taking a safe containing jewellery and stole a blue Volvo V70 estate from the driveway and drove off.

An iPhone stolen during the robbery was found dumped in nearby Back Lane.

The Volvo was found abandoned nearby in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, at around 5am.

Det Sgt Burns added: 'This was clearly an offence that was planned and targeted at this family.

'We are carrying out extensive enquiries and would like to hear from anyone who has any information that could assist the investigation.

'We are keen to speak to anyone who may have seen the men acting suspiciously in the area or saw them dumping the car in Broadlands Court in Pudsey.

'The safe has not yet been recovered and we would like to hear from anyone who has found.'