A RUTHLESS gang leader ordered the torture and execution of four taxi drivers after his sick mum's Uber failed to turn up, say reports.
The four victims – aged between 23 to 48 – were reportedly called to the Jardim Santo Inácio favela in Salvador, Brazil, before being slaughtered.
However, a fifth driver made a dramatic escape from his underworld captors and quickly called in local police.
He claimed he was led behind a shack after being dragged from his car at gunpoint before being beaten and tortured.
The driver said he was tied up but managed to flee into a swamp when one of the victims grabbed a thug's gun.
He and two victims worked for the Brazilian transport company 99 while the other two worked for Uber, reports the Guardian.
In a statement, cops said the motive for the killings was still being investigated, but “one line of inquiry points towards revenge against the drivers, after a trip was refused”.
Rui Costa, the local governor, said: "The gangster ordered these people killed because his mother called Uber, but the car never arrived."
Two suspects in the murders were killed in a police shootout on the same day and the gang leader who ordered the killings was found fatally shot two days later.
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According to Reuters, crimes against Uber drivers in São Paulo, Brazil, rocketed in 2016 after the company began accepting cash payments.
The company then started demanding a social security number and date of birth from passengers paying cash.
“Uber deeply regrets this brutal and shocking crime,” a spokeswoman told the Guardian, while 99 added: “We were deeply saddened by these horrific acts of violence.”
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