POLICE are appealing for information after a gang of teenagers allegedly held a woman's arms and robbed her in a street at the weekend.

Two boys and three girls, aged around 13/14 years old, approached a 22-year old-woman on Gelligaer Road in Cefn Hengoed at around 5pm on February 12 and asked her for a cigarette.

When she refused, the boys are reported to have held the woman by her arms while the girls went through her pockets. They took cigarettes and a mobile phone but dropped the items before running off down the road towards Derwerndeg School.

The two boys were wearing dark coloured hooded tops with the hoods up. Two of the girls were wearing pink hooded tops, one was plain and one had a logo on the front. These two girls had blonde hair. The third girl was wearing dark coloured clothing and had long brown hair.

Anyone with information relating to this is asked to call 101 quoting log 424 12/02/17.