THREE men who started off as passengers in a Nissan Duke car, ended up hijacking the vehicle and robbing the driver in the wee hours of Monday morning, at Ogle Railway Embankment on the East Coast of Demerara.

Reports indicate that the 40-year-old taxi driver of Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, was approached by three men outside a hotel on Vlissingen Road, Kitty Georgetown and requested to be taken to Kitty.

They entered the vehicle and when as it moved off some distance, one of the men changed the destination and asked that they be taken to the East Coast instead.

The unsuspecting driver proceeded with the request but while in the vicinity of the Ogle Airport road, one of the men seated in back seat choked him as the bandit in the front passenger seat dealt him several punches about the body and demanded valuables.
The other bandit who was in the back seat reportedly took out a knife and inflicted several cuts about the driver’s body. Having relieved him of his valuables, he was then thrown out of the vehicle and the carjackers drove away with it.

The taxi driver made his way to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was treated for his wounds and sent away. A report was subsequently made to the police and an investigation is ongoing.