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Bangor rioters rob and burn bus

By Lisa Smyth
newsdesk@belfasttelegraph.co.uk

12 September 2005

RIOTING thugs who hijacked a Bangor bus and robbed each passenger in turn were branded the "lowest of the low" today.

Two men boarded the bus at about 9.30pm yesterday and forced the driver to go off the route before robbing the personal belongings of the passengers and ordering them off the vehicle at St Andrew's Church about 15 minutes later.

The bus was then driven to Green Road in Conlig by the men before they set it alight blocking the road.

The incident, today branded "the lowest of the low" by DUP leader Ian Paisley, signalled the beginning of a night of violence in the town in which police officers came under attack at various locations.

Petrol bombs were thrown at officers attending the scene of the hijacked bus in Conlig and petrol bombs were thrown in the Whitehill area of the town.

More petrol bombs were thrown in the Newtownards Road area and the driver of a Corsa car was forced from the vehicle on the Clandeboye Road.

Police discovered 25 petrol bombs in the Clandeboye Road.

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