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29 March 2024

Drunk women assault taxi driver

Police arrest assailants, other men and photographers.

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Four drunk Arab women used their shoes to assault an African taxi driver at a petrol station in Dubai before they were arrested along with male accomplices.

Three Asian men who filmed and publicised the brawl were also arrested.

Dubai's police commander Major General Khamis Al Mazinah said the four women were later found to have a police record involving financial violations and other offences.

Quoted by the Dubai-based Emarat Alyoum daily, he said the women had asked the driver to give them a lift late night last week and that they later told him to stop at a petrol station in Barsha so they will buy food and drinks.

He said the driver was irked when they were late at the shop and for shouting at him, adding that he asked them to pay him and let him go.

"They then assaulted him, one of them took off her shoes and attacked him. Some Arab men who were there were involved in the fight while an Asian man and his two friends filmed the scuffle and publicised it later," Mazinah said.

He said the women and the Arab men were all arrested less than an hour after the assault while the Asian photographer and his two friends would face trail for violating law laws and hurting the image of a national taxi company.

"The taxi company has filed a defamation case against that photographer for publicising the fight without permission," he said.