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Anger after tuk-tuk burned

TWO business partners spent a year and £15,000 importing a rare Indian taxi – only for it to be stolen and torched within two weeks of arriving in Scotland.

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The restaurant owners bought the three-wheeled tuk-tuk in Mumbai, haggled with bureaucrats in India and the UK, shipped it more than 7000 miles and lovingly restored the vehicle.

However, joyriders stole the tuk-tuk in Edinburgh on Monday night, and took it for a short ride, before burning it nearby.

The devastated pair, Tahmir Hussain and Chisti Iftikar, today hit out at the "ruthless" destruction of their vehicle.

The tuk-tuk was one of three, bought at a total cost of £45,000, to promote a new restaurant selling Indian street food.

Jackir Hussain, one of the team who managed the restoration project, said: "I felt devastated when I found out. I put so many hours into fixing it up."

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