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Warning as driver is robbed after stopping to help man faking injury on roadside

A man was attacked and robbed after stopping to help a man pretending to have been injured in a road collision.

The incident happened in the Summerhill Road area of Dunmurry, just outside Belfast, at around 4.40pm on Friday.

The victim saw a man lying on the road beside an electric scooter. He pulled over to check on the man.

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Police said as he approached, he turned around to see a second man sitting in his car before exiting and fleeing.

He tried returning to his car but the man who had been lying down attacked him with a Stanley knife-style object.

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