Three men have been arrested after a woman was held at knifepoint during a car hijacking in Newtownards, Co Down.
Police said a woman was parked in the East Street area of the town when two men forced her out of the car.
A PSNI spokesman said: "We received a report at around 8.30pm on Thursday that a vehicle had been hijacked in the East Street area of Newtownards.
“A woman had been parked in the area when two men, at least one of them was armed with a knife, demanded the driver get out of the vehicle.
“They drove off from the area, around 10 minutes later police received a report of a single vehicle collision in the Crawfordsburn Road area and the occupants of the vehicle had fled the scene.
“Follow up enquiries led police to a property in the Greengraves area, where three men were arrested."
The spokesman said two men, aged 22 and 20, were arrested on suspicion of a number of offences including hijacking, robbery and possession of an offensive weapon.
A third man, aged in his fifties, was arrested on suspicion of assisting offenders.
Police have appealed for anyone with information or who may have CCTV or dashcam footage to contact detectives on 101.
