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Article: CRIME
Police want
info from
hurt driver
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- Article from:
- New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Article date:
- November 30, 2008
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Detectives are today hoping to talk to an Auckland taxi driver who drove himself to safety after being stabbed several times by a passenger.
The 23-year-old taxi driver was stabbed repeatedly by a man he picked up outside the Sebel Hotel on the Viaduct and drove to Bertrand Rd, Mt Wellington.
Detective Senior Sergeant Greg Cramer told the Herald the victim, a Russian man, had been stabbed multiple times in the abdomen and upper body during the attack about 11.30pm on Friday. ``It was a particularly nasty assault _ quite vicious,'' Mr Cramer said. ``This man is very, very lucky to be alive.''
Mr Cramer praised the man, who was bleeding ...