Lyft driver from Nashua beaten by four people in Boston

Bruised, battered, and bewildered, a Lyft driver is recovering from injuries suffered when four men attacked him in Boston. Anubhab Chakma, 30, of Nashua, said he picked up the group early Sunday morning along I and East 1st Streets in South Boston. Three men hopped in the back, while a man and a woman went in the front seat. “I told them I can not drive like this because it’s illegal,” Chakma said. He said the group offered him double the money to take them to Quincy, Massachusetts, but when he refused, a passenger from the back seat gave an ultimatum: take us or get a beating. “I get out of my car,” Chakma said. “I told them ‘please get out,’ I opened the door for the guy. He just got out and punched my head.” One attacker turned into four before Chakma ran to safety. He spent the next morning in the hospital and is recovering from a broken nose and two broken bones in his eye socket. Police are investigating, and Lyft said it has banned the passenger and is working with authorities. “If they don’t get punished, maybe you can be the next victim. You never know,” Chakma said. “Or maybe some other person.”

Bruised, battered, and bewildered, a Lyft driver is recovering from injuries suffered when four men attacked him in Boston.

Anubhab Chakma, 30, of Nashua, said he picked up the group early Sunday morning along I and East 1st Streets in South Boston. Three men hopped in the back, while a man and a woman went in the front seat.


“I told them I can not drive like this because it’s illegal,” Chakma said.

He said the group offered him double the money to take them to Quincy, Massachusetts, but when he refused, a passenger from the back seat gave an ultimatum: take us or get a beating.

“I get out of my car,” Chakma said. “I told them ‘please get out,’ I opened the door for the guy. He just got out and punched my head.”

One attacker turned into four before Chakma ran to safety. He spent the next morning in the hospital and is recovering from a broken nose and two broken bones in his eye socket.

Police are investigating, and Lyft said it has banned the passenger and is working with authorities.

“If they don’t get punished, maybe you can be the next victim. You never know,” Chakma said. “Or maybe some other person.”