The New Zealand Government is considering introducing mandatory safety measures in taxis after a cab driver was stabbed to death in Auckland over the weekend.
Hiren Mohini, 39, was killed for a $20 cab fare in one of Auckland's nicest suburbs.
He was stabbed in the neck and chest in the early hours of yesterday morning.
After he was attacked, the dying man rammed his taxi into a wall.
A man in his twenties was seen running from the scene.
Cab driver Bipin Tavadia says Mr Mohini was a gentle man, who was working extra shifts to support his mother, wife and two daughters, aged five and three.
"Those people they have money to drink, they have money to spend, but they don't have money for taxi," he said.
Taxi companies in New Zealand want the Government to pay for screens and cameras in cabs.
Another taxi driver was stabbed to death in Christchurch just over a year ago.-- radio australia
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