Auckland witness recalls stabbed Indian cabbie's horrific last moments before death

Auckland, Feb 1(ANI): A witness, who rushed to the aid of dying Indian-origin taxi driver Hiren Mohini, has revealed that the 39-year-old was slumped over the steering wheel, bleeding from knife wounds to his neck and chest, with his foot on the accelerator.

Mohini, a Mount Roskill resident, was driving an Auckland Co-op taxi, which veered off the road and hit a tree around 1.30 a.m., after allegedly being stabbed by a passenger.

He died on an ambulance stretcher minutes after the incident, in what police described as a frenzied attack.

The witness, Adam Couper, who lives nearby the crash site and was one of the first on the scene, said that he heard a loud thud and rushed across the road, where he saw the car rammed up against the fence.

"By the time we got there the car was already stopped, but the driver was sort of slumped over and had his foot on the gas - he was doing a burn-out. One of my flatmates was in there trying to help, moved his head back so he could breathe but there wasn't much we could do," New Zealand Herald quoted Couper, as saying.

Couper further said that Mohini's injuries were horrific, as found in the post mortem reports.

"He had a knife wound to his neck as well as a pretty good stab to his chest. He was bleeding pretty profusely and there was blood all over the door," he said.

He also said that the neighbours tried desperately to staunch the taxi driver's wounds with towels, while they waited for the ambulance, which arrived in five or six minutes. (ANI)