A TAXI driver was on Thursday morning stabbed several times about the body and had his car almost hijacked by two males and a female around 04:00hrs.

According to persons close to the investigation, the driver picked up two identifiable males and one female on the instruction of the dispatcher of a taxi service on ‘C’ Field Sophia.

The taxi driver, whose name was not immediately released to the Guyana Chronicle, claimed that when he went to make the pick-up in his car HC 5989, he saw that there were three persons instead of one as advised by the base.

He said one of the males jumped into the front seat of the car, while the female and the other male entered the back seat.

And shortly after entering the vehicle, he said, the man in the front seat whipped out a knife and began stabbing him about the body, while the two passengers in the back seat not only choked him, but pulled his jersey over his face and stabbed him too.

The suspects then pushed the driver out of the vehicle and attempted to drive the car away, but it became stuck in a swampy part of the road shoulder, so they abandoned it and sprinted away.

The driver quickly got back into his vehicle and drove to a nearby police station where a report was made and a statement taken, before he was sent off with a medical form to the nearest hospital to seek medical attention.

The cops, meanwhile, are looking for the suspects so that they can probe the matter and bring the perpetrators to justice.