Taxi hijacker dies, passenger injured

A woman was injured when a German man hijacked and then crashed the taxi in which she was a passenger in northeast Beijing.

The taxi driver surnamed Wang, from Tianming Taxi Company, said the attack happened on Saturday at 4 am, when the woman hailed his taxi near the Holiday Inn Lido in the Wangjing area.

The Mongolian woman asked Wang to drive her to Baiziwan in south Beijing.