METRO VANCOUVER -- A taxi driver and his four passengers are lucky to be alive after another driver fired a gun into a cab then sped off late Saturday night near Surrey Central SkyTrain Station.

Police are now looking for the shooter and the cab’s four passengers that fled after the shooting, which happened on 102 A Avenue near University Boulevard around 10:50 p.m.

The two women and two men travelling in the cab took off after the bullet went through the rear window on the driver’s side and then out the passenger-side rear window, according to an RCMP news release.

Patrols of the area failed to find the shooter or the four passengers who fled.

Now police are asking members of the public to phone them if they witnessed the incident or have any information on the identities of the four passengers or any of the people in the suspect vehicle. Surrey RCMP are asking the public to phone them at 604-599-0502 or leave an anonymous tip through CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477.