A MAJOR terrorist hunt was under way in the North West after a policeman was shot, a car was hijacked at gunpoint and a bomb blast destroyed a gasometer.
A policeman who stopped a van in the centre of Warrington was shot twice.
Police held two men after the hijacked car crashed on the M62, but a third man, believed to be armed, escaped.
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