RESIDENTS were attacked in their own home when it was stormed by a gang of masked .

Sussex Police are investigating after a number of people were assaulted when four men stormed into a house in Brighton on Wednesday evening.

The men, all dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, pushed into a house in Prince’s Terrace at 9.30pm as another person was going in.

They sprayed the occupants with an unknown substance, thought to be a fire extinguisher, before being driven back out of the property.

One of the occupants, a 30-year-old man, suffered a head injury that required treatment at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to email 101@sussex.pnn.police.uk or call 101 quoting serial 1203 of 15/02.