'Black cab' driver confesses to killing missing Chongqing student

A "girl missing" poster reads the 20-year-old undergraduate student, Gao Yu, went missing after she got into a "black cab" in the Tong Liang county of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on August 09, 2014. [Photo: sohu.com]

Authorities in Chongqing concluded that a female university student who went missing after she entered an unlicensed taxi was murdered by the vehicle's driver, cqnews.net reported.

Gao Yu, a 20-year-old undergraduate student of Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunications, was reported missing after getting into a "black cab" she mistook as a vehicle of a family-friend in the city's Tong Liang County on August 9.

The driver of the cab, Pu Zhengfu, confessed to killing Gao after being apprehended in Yunnan province on Tuesday.

According to Pu, he killed the girl after the two got into an argument during the drive.

Authorities discovered the license plate of the car Gao entered and released it to the public via Tong Liang County's official Weibo account. After that, Pu was listed as a prime suspect in Gao's disappearance before he was arrested by police.

The case is under further investigation.