Driver hijacked and forced to abandon suspicious object outside Tyrone police station

Driver hijacked and forced to abandon suspicious object outside Tyrone police station
The victim was hijacked by three masked men in the Fireagh Road area, police said (Peter Byrne/PA)

A man was hijacked at gunpoint by a masked gang and then forced to drive his car with a suspicious object on board to a police station in Northern Ireland.

The incident caused a major security alert in Omagh, Co Tyrone, which led to a number of people being evacuated from their homes and cordons erected.

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