• Northern Irish police arrested three people in an investigation into a car hijacking and bomb planting in March, believed to be carried out by Irish nationalist militants.
  • A 48-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy were arrested under the Terrorism Act, and a 39-year-old woman on suspicion of perverting the course of justice and assisting an offender.
  • Police previously said ‘dissident republican groups’ were highly likely responsible for the hijacking and placing of an improvised explosive device in a food delivery vehicle.
  • The vehicle was driven to a police station in Lurgan, and over 100 homes were evacuated while a controlled explosion was carried out.

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