Bogus workmen hijack lorry

A driver has been released after his lorry containing £1m-worth of cigarettes was hijacked in County Armagh.

Police are investigating the incident which happened near Jonesboro at about 0730 GMT on Monday.

A gang dressed as road service workers stopped the lorry at a fake checkpoint on the main Belfast to Dublin Road close to the border with the Irish Republic.

They smashed a window in the lorry's cab, then tied up and blindfolded the driver.

He was taken in another vehicle to another location, and was questioned for a time before being released.

The driver sustained minor injuries during the incident.

The cab was later found burned out on the Low Road in nearby Killeavy, but the cigarettes have not yet been recovered.

Earlier, a gang attempted to hijack another lorry in the area.