A 39-year-old taxi driver had a close shave with death after three unidentified men suspected to be armed robbers attacked and snatched his car from him at Ajumako in the Central Region.
According to the victim, Kojo Amonoo, a young girl about 14 years hired him to drive her to a building construction site surrounded by a bush.
On reaching the destination, the assailants attacked him and pushed him out of his car.
He said the armed men shot at him. Fortunately, the bullet failed to eject.
The robbers, who were angered by the turn out of events, beat him up mercilessly and bolted with his taxi with registration number GW-5692-20.
The terrified driver, who sustained some injuries, was taken to the Ajumako District Government Hospital for medical attention.
The case has been reported to the Ajumako District Police Station for investigation.
Last month a taxi driver was also killed with the same modus operandi.
On November 1, 2022, a decapitated body of a 28-year-old taxi driver Bernard Botwey was found in an uncompleted Senior High School (SHS) at Ajumako Mando in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region.
According to reports, the victim who plies from the Ekumfi Esaakyir taxi station to Ajumako had been missing for three days after three men on Saturday, October 29, 2022, boarded his taxi from Ekumfi Esaakyir to Enyan Abaasa, but never returned home.
Subsequently, his family and some colleague drivers reported the incident to the police, but he was not found.
However, on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, around 2:00 PM, some residents around the school smelled a strange odour, so they traced and found the deceased’s body without his head and cutlass wounds on the body.
They reported it to the Ajumako District Police, who arrived at the scene and identified the deceased as the missing driver.