Uber taxi burnt in Nairobi's Riruta estate

Mobile taxi-hailing app Uber. FILE PHOTO

An Uber taxi was burnt in Riruta Satellite early on Wednesday morning.

Police said the driver of the taxi was hired by a man at Yaya Centre in Nairobi who said he needed to pick up his girlfriend from Naivasha Road in Riruta.

'On reaching Satellite, he asked him to stop so that he could relieve himself but on doing so, four men emerged and set the car ablaze," Dagoretti OCPD Rashid Mohammed said.

He said the driver escaped when he realised the intentions of the five men.

"He escaped unhurt and he is helping us with investigations," Mr Rashid said.

The incident comes barely a month after another taxi operated by Uber was set ablaze in Kilimani.