Police baffled by hijack
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• Hijackers held a driver at gunpoint before stealing his cargo in broad daylight.
Police in Dublin are hunting the robbers who locked the man in the back of his truck before making off with more than Ili£200,000 of computer components.
The Irish Express lorry was stopped at Kilshane Cross, north of Dublin, on 17 August when a car pulled out in front of it. Three men forced the driver to drive to a nearby business park at gunpoint. He was left in the back of his truck but eventually managed to escape and raise the alarm.
Although the attack happened at 16:00hrs in broad daylight, police say that no witnesses have come forward and they are mystified about how the robbers left the scene.
• An attack on a driver on Raheen motorway in Limerick may have been a road rage incident rather than an attempted robbery.
A driver travelling from Dublin to Listowel needed hospital treatment after he was slashed in the face with a knife in the early hours of 24 August. He was forced to stop by two men in a blue car pretending to be police officers. They attempted to take the keys from his truck but the driver resisted and managed to escape.