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Late Friday night, 84-year-old Ken Czenczek leaned over his kitchen sink, trying to wash off the still-flowing blood after he was attacked in his own home by a stranger.

The Calgary senior’s grandson, Ryan Czenczek, came upstairs for a drink a water and found his first indication something was wrong — a trail of blood.

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As Ken tells it, late Friday night, just before 11 p.m., he came downstairs to the kitchen of his Thistle Place N.E. home to find an unknown woman rummaging around his belongings.

She ran away with just a glass cup, but came back with a broken shard of the stolen item.

“That’s when she rushed him — she hit him in the face with the broken piece of glass she had,” the senior’s 21-year-old grandson said.

“My grandpa asked her, ‘Who are you? What are you doing? I don’t know you.’

“As soon as she hit him she ran out the door again.

“We’re not sure who she is — I never saw her and my grandpa said he had never met her before.”