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29 March 2024

Dubai airport passenger forgets son in cab

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A Gulf passenger and his family forgot their five-year-old son asleep in the taxi as they rushed to Dubai airport to catch their flight.

Only when they were inside the airport lounge did they realise their blunder. Finding that the cab had already gone, they rushed to the police centre at the airport.

Police used security cameras to identify the cab that had brought the family to the airport and managed to reach the driver within two hours.

“After two hours, the driver returned to the airport. He said he did not know there was a little kid asleep in the back seat,” Dubai’s CID chief Major General Khalil Al Mansouri said, quoted by the Arabic language daily Emarat Al Youm.

He said the incident took place a few weeks ago but he did not identify the family.