Bus hijacked and set alight in Co Down in apparent NI Protocol protest

Bus hijacked and set alight in Co Down in apparent NI Protocol protest

The scene on Abbot Drive in Newtownards, Co. Down, where police are investigating a hijacking and arson attack on a bus. Picture: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

A bus has been hijacked and set alight in an attack politicians have linked to loyalist opposition to Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol.

Stormont’s Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said two masked men “muttered something about the protocol” as they held the driver at gunpoint.

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