Taxi Driver Ordered To Drive Bomb To Courthouse – UK
October 10, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
The device turned out to be a hoax in a bizarre story out of the UK. Armed, masked men in Strabane told a taxi driver they had put a bomb in his car and ordered him to bring it to the town’s courthouse.
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Bomb experts who examined the vehicle overnight said the device was a hoax.
Residents living nearby spent the night out of their homes as the area was cordoned off.
Four men, two believed to be carrying handguns, approached the taxi driver at about 2300 BST on Friday as he arrived for a job at Townsend Street.
Sinn Fein councillor Danny Breslin said: “It’s horrific to think about it – I’m sure he’ll be traumatised for a long time.
“We don’t want these random bomb scares, disrupting traffic and stopping people from going about their business.”
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