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Taxi driver pepper sprayed, car hijacked

Nov 23, 2013 News

Arif Samad, 22, had his car hijacked on Thursday, after being sprayed in the face with pepper spray and shoved out of the driver’s seat of his silver-grey Toyota 212 (PRR 5750) by a couple posing as legitimate commuters.
According to Samad, who is attached to the Bora Taxi Service, he was at the base located at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara when the couple approached him and requested to be taken to the Diamond Housing Scheme.
“The man seh that I got to carry him to First Avenue, Diamond and that when I coming back, I got to take the girl to Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, so I carry them,” Samad said.
He added that at first, the couple appeared to have been confused as to where they wanted to go. He said, however, that after a while, the man pointed to a big house up ahead, and asked that Samad stop there.
Samad said, “When I stop the car, the girl who did sitting behind my seat, opened the car door from outside. By the time I look, the man lean over and start spraying something in my face. It got to be pepper spray. It did blistering bad, and I couldn’t see. We had a scuffle and they manage to push me out of the car, and although I try fuh get out the keys, I couldn’t. Dem get fuh getaway.”
Samad told this newspaper that a report was made to the Diamond Police Station and investigations are ongoing.
The door lock, gas tank cover, and door handles of the hijacked car, can be easily identified.
Samad is asking for anyone with information about his car, to contact him on telephone numbers 676-1604, 614-0264, 276-3232.

 

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