“He showed me the house he wanted and by the time I look and look back, he had a gun to my head,” says an Indian Chief Taxi Service driver, 29, who is among 15 reportedly robbed by a lone gunman who has been posing as a customer.
Police on Thursday said that during the month of October, 2011, there were 14 reported incidents where taxi-drivers were attacked and robbed by a man armed with a handgun who entered their vehicles on the pretext of being a passenger. “The drivers were then held up and taken mainly to the Albouys-town and Sophia areas, where they were robbed of their valuables. On five of the occasions, the armed man took away the victims’ motor vehicles and used them to commit armed robberies on several females,” police said in a statement.
The Indian Chief driver, who asked not to have his identity revealed, said he could not recall the exact day of the