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taxi driver in operation was stabbed and killed by a weapon wounded by a passenger.
A passenger who tried to escape immediately after the crime was arrested by a citizen who witnessed the crime and was caught by the police.
Reporter Baek Woon's report.
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taxi with a badly broken back part of the vehicle is struck by a street tree and stopped.
Next door in India, 119 paramedics take a taxi driver out of their car and perform CPR.
The taxi driver was taken to the hospital, but he died.
At about 9:50 pm on the 14th, a male passenger in his 20s sitting in the back seat of a taxi on a road in Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, swung his weapon several times at a taxi driver in his 60s.
The suspect tried to run away after the taxi driver fell conscious and collapsed, but a citizen who witnessed the scene stopped him and was able to arrest him.
[Witness: (the suspect) was hiding behind the driver, crouching on the floor.
I'm opening the door to escape, but I kicked it so I couldn't come out, and I blocked the door, so I can't come out.] This is the
scene of the incident.
The suspect was struck by a tree and arrested in the back seat of a taxi that stopped.
The taxi the victim was driving was a private taxi in the Incheon area.
The police have secured a taxi black box and are investigating how a local taxi in Incheon came to Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province.
In addition, we are investigating the reason why the suspect had a weapon and the exact motive of the crime.