BUSMEN threatened to take the law into their own hands after a series of late-night attacks on drivers by marauding gangs of youths.

Five drivers had been attacked during the previous three weeks by teenagers, who leapt on to buses, punched the drivers and jumped off again.

The drivers warned that if action was not taken they would form their own vigilante group and take on the attackers themselves.

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