Two vehicles and electronic devices have been seized by detectives probing a car bomb attack on a police station in Co Antrim earlier this year.
A delivery driver was hijacked and a device placed in his car before he was ordered to drive to Dunmurry police station on Saturday April 25.
The car exploded outside the station as people were being evacuated.
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Source: Belfast Telegraph
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