Two men have been arrested following a cross-border customs operation tackling cigarette smugglers in which two police officers were injured.
One PSNI officer remains in a critical condition in Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry this evening after he and a colleague were run over by a lorry as its driver escaped from a warehouse in south Armagh at around 1pm.
Over the weekend a cargo of smuggled cigarettes arrived from China in Dublin Port.
Watched by customs officers, the cargo was then brought to Dundalk.
Earlier today the container was taken just across the border to warehouses near Meigh in south Armagh.
A number of armed PSNI officers and revenue officials raided the warehouse as the cigarettes were being unloaded.
The driver of one lorry drove through a roller door as he escaped and hit the two PSNI officers, who were outside.
The lorry drove the short distance to the border at high speed.
However, as he was turning the truck into a yard, he lost control. The lorry ended up on its side and now a search is under way on both sides of the border for the driver.
A total of 7m cigarettes were discovered in the warehouse, with a street value in Northern Ireland of around £1.1m.
It is believed the truck which crashed was carrying around 3m cigarettes.
