UPDATE: The taxi driver has met with the police and says didn’t leave the vacationer, he was simply utilizing the restroom. Read extra HERE.
Original story…
A taxi driver allegedly robbed a passenger and left him and his pal at a petroleum station in Isaan province Ubon Ratchathani. The vacationer from Bangkok says that not solely did the motive force overcharge him for the journey, but he also took off together with his baggage which included his passport, tablet and phone.
ติดตั้งโซล่าเซลล์ that he and his friend had simply landed on the Ubon Ratchathani International Airport and had been approached by a gaggle providing a taxi service. For a 100-kilometre journey from the airport to the Khemmarat district, the taxi charged 1,000 baht. According to the standard charges for the gap, the transportation fee shouldn’t value over 900 baht.
The tourist says the motive force advised stopping at a petrol station on Ubon – Trakan Road to go to the bathroom and take a quick break. When the tourist and his good friend walked out of the comfort store, the taxi was gone. The driver took three gadgets of bags holding documents, a passport, a pill, and a telephone, which the vacationer says value a hundred,000 baht. They say they’d even bought drinks and snacks for the driver.
The tourist says he normally visited the province to make advantage about 4 to five times per year and had a regular taxi driver. However, the driver wasn’t out there, forcing him to use the service at the front of the airport. He needed the related authorities to investigate the taxi service on the airport to forestall related circumstances in the future.
The officers from Mueng Ubon Ratchathani are now working on the case. They checked the CCTV cameras in front of the convenience retailer and a car park on the airport to seek for the motive force..