A young woman has accused a taxi driver of slashing her with a knife and robbing her of cash and other items in Bangkok’s Bang Kapi district after she hired him to take her home from a pub in the early hours of Wednesday.
Thongpakai Suksrirat arrived at Lat Phrao police station with blood flowing down her arms and filed a complaint at about 3.45am.
The young woman told police that she had been attacked and robbed by a taxi driver.
She had been at a pub in Ratchada 18. When it closed she waved down a taxi to take her back to her apartment in Serithai at around 3am.
The driver stopped the car saying that he needed to urinate. But instead, he opened the door to the back passenger seat where she was sitting, Ms Thongpakai told police.
When he ordered her to give him her handbag, she refused. He tried to snatch it from her and at the same time she felt pain in her arms, as if she had been cut by something sharp.
He repeatedly attacked her, finally tearing the handbag from her grasp before she managed to push him away with her foot and flee from the cab. He then drove quickly away.
She told police her handbag contained 14,000 baht in cash, three ATM cards and her ID card.
Later on Wednesday, Ms Thongpakai posted a message on her Facebook account warning women against travelling alone.
Photos of her with bloodied arms were posted on her Facebook page and quickly went viral.
