Northern Ireland: Vehicles and electronic devices seized in probe into Dunmurry blast


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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