Man quizzed over taxi hijack after passenger dies

Gardaí were last night continuing to question a man after a taxi was hijacked on a Dublin street and then crashed into a pole, killing a passenger.

The latest hijacking incident in the capital occurred at 8.30am yesterday when a taxi driver picked up two passengers who then attacked him near the Oliver Bond Flats area. The driver was ejected from the vehicle, which then sped off in the direction of James’s St.

It crashed into a pole at 8.45am, with one of the occupants sustaining serious injuries.