Forensics investigating the body of the cab driver yesterday. Pix: Sinar HarianKUALA LUMPUR: A taxi driver, believed to be a victim of robbers posing as passengers, has been found stabbed to death about 100m from his vehicle at a cemetery in Cheras.

Cheras OCPD Asst Comm Mohan Singh said police believed that the man, in his 40s, was attacked in his taxi and had run out of the vehicle before collapsing and dying from wounds to his head and abdomen.

"There were blood stains on the driver's seat and a trail of blood to where he was found by a passer-by at 7.30pm," he said, adding that two knives were discovered at the scene.

He said one of the knives were discovered in the vehicle and the other near the body.

"We found no valuables on him, leading us to believe that he was robbed by at least two people who entered his taxi and forced him to drive to a secluded place," he said at the scene yesterday.

ACP Mohan said the man's body had been sent to the Universiti Kebangsan Malaysia Medical Centre for a post mortem. The case is being investigated as murder.

He urged anyone with information to contact the police hotline 03-2115 9999.

- The Star