Two criminals stabbed and stole the vehicle of a 53-year-old taxi driver in Rocha, but his car showed up a few blocks away after the worker managed to escape and asked for help in a business in the area.
As reported by the Rocha Police Headquarters in a statement, this Wednesday morning the taxi driver lifted two men in the center of the departmental capital. When he turned onto Ramírez street towards lavallejathe passengers they demanded money from the driver, threatening him with a knife which they placed on his neck.
The man gave the thieves a backpack with moneyand then decided jump out of vehicle to escape. In that attempt he received a stab in the chest, They detailed from the Rochense Headquarters.
The criminals they escaped in the taxi while the victim of the robbery, wounded, managed to get to a business on Lavalleja street to ask for help. There the police arrived, who referred the taxi driver to a hospital, where they gave him a pass to “operating room”.
the stolen vehicle was found in the same Lavalleja streetempty and with engine ondetailed the department police.
Scientific police crashed the carand works on the case together with the Investigations area of the Operational Zone I of Rocha.