A 15-year-old is in garda custody today after threatening a taxi driver with a knife during an attempted carjacking in Dublin.
The incident took place at approximately 5.25am on Terenure Road when the driver stopped for a fare in the area. It's believed that the teenager got into the taxi and threatened the 36-year-old driver with a knife before demanded money and forcing the taxi driver to get out of the car.
The teenager then drove off in the car in the direction of the city before colliding with another vehicle on the Old Cabra Road in Dublin 7 at around 5.45am. He was later arrested by gardaí and taken to Rathmines Garda Station. It's understood that nobody was injured during the incident.
This is the third carjacking in Dublin City in recent days, with a woman and two children targeted by a man in Terenure on Friday afternoon and the car of a pregnant woman hijacked in the north inner city on Monday.
