Both girls in their complaint lodged at Anjuna police station said they had to jump out of the taxi to escape from his clutches and hide in the woods for almost five hours waiting for the dawn. Olga Tyurina (29) and Irina Babayan (25) were returning from a discotheque at Saligao in North Goa after attending Christmas party.
The girls, not very fluent in English, have told police that an unidentified taxi driver, whom they had hired to drop them back to their hotel at Baga, took them to the beach.
(Published 25 December 2009, 19:18 IST)