Police are investigating after the armed robbery of a taxi driver at Taigum early this morning.

Around 2.15am a man and two women attended a car wash at a shopping centre carpark on Beams Road and attempted to break into a car.

Shortly afterwards, a taxi arrived and parked in the carpark before the two women approached it.

The women spoke to the driver before stealing cash and the male driver’s personal belongings. When the driver attempted to get out of the taxi the women threatened him with a metal bar.

The two women and the man left the scene in a black Mazda 3 hatchback, and were last seen driving along Beams Road

Investigations are continuing.