“China’s Uber” suspends its car-pool service for a week after a woman who took a ride home was killed.
The death of a 21-year-old woman after taking a ride with Didi Chuxing has sparked a social media backlash and forced China’s equivalent of Uber to suspend its car-pool service.
The 21-year-old flight attendant died on 6 May in Zhengzhou.
She had ordered a ride using Didi’s Hitch service, which pairs up commuters heading in the same direction.
Police said they were searching for a 27-year-old male suspected of the killing.
The case has gone viral on Chinese social media and was the top-trending item on Weibo – China’s equivalent of Twitter – on Friday.
One report suggested the suspect had stolen his father’s Hitch account and its facial recognition security system had not been triggered.
