A Protestant man and his Catholic girlfriend have been ordered by a masked gunman to leave their home on the edge of a loyalist housing estate in Co Antrim.
The gunman forced his way into the couple's home in Larne late last night, put a gun to their heads and told them they had 24 hours to get out of town.
Windows were shattered in the front and back of the house on the Upper Carncastle Road, on the edge of the loyalist Craigyhill estate during the incident.
The man said today they were watching TV when he and the mother of four were ordered out. "There was a knock on the door and the next minute the door came in," he said.
"The man came in, he was dressed all in black and wearing a balaclava, and shouted 'Get down, get down' and put the gun to my head and to my girlfriend's."
The man, too scared to give his name, added: "He said we had 24 hours to get out of Larne".
PA