MASKED youths frightened householders in a leafy Bromsgrove village, prompting police to reassure residents.
Social media reports forwarded to the Advertiser claimed that several masked individuals approached a property in Fairfield Road in Bournheath on Tuesday (February 12).
The youths then reportedly fled the scene in a white Audi.
A West Mercia Police statement said: "We were called at around 6.30pm on 12 February to reports of young people with masks in the Fairfield Road in Bromsgrove.
"Currently we are not aware of a crime taking place but one of our safer neighbourhood officers has visited the homeowner to reassure them."
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