Burglars ran away from a house in Lincoln, Neb., when they found a 12-year-old girl home on a snow day, police said.

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The girl heard someone break in through a door Monday afternoon, hid in a bedroom with her 10-year-old sibling and called police, Officer Katie Flood told The Lincoln Journal.

She looked through the doorway and saw a man, Flood said. He saw her, too, and told his accomplice there were people inside.

"They successfully broke into the house," the officer said. "Nothing was taken."

A neighbor who was out sledding saw two people run from the house, Flood said, and police tracked footprints in the snow to the parking lot of a nearby bank. They found a fresh set of tire tracks where the footprints stopped.

Bank staff and the girl gave differing descriptions of the suspects, the report said.