By Nafeeza Yahya-Sakur

-Police rescue injured taxi driver, rank assaulted

ALERT policemen, on Wednesday, managed to rescue a 64-year-old taxi driver, who was badly beaten and forcefully thrown into the backseat of his car, during a carjacking at Maida Village, East Berbice-Corentyne.

A high-speed chase ended when the car became involved in an accident at Bush Lot Village.
While details are sketchy, the Guyana Chronicle understands that two traffic ranks were alerted to an incident where a taxi driver was beaten, tied up and forcefully placed into the backseat of his white Toyota Fielder motor car, HC 5998, at Maida Village. The carjackers drove off with him in the vehicle.
The ranks, who were in the vicinity, having been alerted, gave chase on a motor cycle. At some point during the chase the Fielder Wagon slammed into the back of a Toyota Allion at Bush Lot Village.

When the ranks stopped and approached the Fielder wagon, the occupants became aggressive. The one in the front passenger seat whipped out a knife and attacked one of the ranks.

According to eyewitnesses, the man dealt the rank several blows about the body and eventually escaped.
Meanwhile, at the accident scene the elderly taxi driver was found with serious injuries to the face and was taken to the Port Mourant Hospital. Reports are that he sustained a broken jaw and other injuries to the face.

The beating of the taxi driver was caught on camera. In the video which was seen by this publication, two males were observed punching the elderly man in his face. He was later pulled from his driver seat and stomped several more times in the face.
The carjackers tied his shirt around his face and threw him into the back seat of the car and drove off.
The driver of the Toyota Allion, Vickram Seepaul, was visibly shaken when Guyana Chronicle arrived at the scene.
He recalled that he was driving to Rose Hall Town when he felt an impact from behind.
“When I get hit I feel a sting from my head and then the vehicle start spin. Same time two trucks were coming and I try pull the vehicle in the corner. One person in the backseat was injured and had to go to the hospital,” he said.

The police have since arrested one person and is in search of another in connection with the carjacking, assault and abduction.
Investigations are ongoing.