Detectives carried out road stops in Dunmurry near Belfast on Saturday as Crimestoppers offered a reward of up to £20,000 for information about the car bomb attack on a police station two weeks ago.
At around 10.45pm on April 25 a delivery driver was threatened by a masked gunman in the Summerhill area of Twinbrook, the PSNI said. His vehicle was hijacked, a gas canister-type bomb was put in the back of his car and he was told he had 30 minutes to get to Dunmurry police station before the bomb would go off.
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Source: Belfast Telegraph News
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