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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jonathan McCambridge

Delivery driver forced at gunpoint to take object to police station

A white Audi car parked inside the police station in Lurgan, Co Armagh after a delivery driver was threatened at gunpoint and forced to drive his car with an object inside to the town's police station, sparking a security alert - (Liam McBurney/PA Wire)

Police say Irish nationalist militants were likely behind the hijacking and placing of an improvised explosive device in a food delivery vehicle that was ordered to drive to a Northern Irish police station before the device was made safe.

The fast food delivery driver was forced to stop by two masked men at around 10.30pm on Monday and drive to the police station in Lurgan, Co Armagh, around 18 miles from Belfast.

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