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.