Customs official were shocked to see an infant laying in hand luggage as it was being scanned in an x-ray machine at the Sharjah International airport on Saturday.
A man, in his 30s, and his wife arrived at the airport from Egypt Friday, but airport authorities did not allow them to enter UAE. The couple had no visas, passports or official documents of the five-month-old baby. The parents were told they had to wait two days at the airport until the visa office reopened so the young boy's documents could be processed.
The impatient Egyptian parents put their son in the hand luggage and tried to sneak the infant through customs, unaware that security could identify the items inside their luggage.
"When customs officials saw the baby inside the bag at the X-ray scanner, they were stunned," A police official told Gulf News. "This machine is very dangerous for anyone, let alone a baby in a bag to pass through. A case will now be raised against the mother and father, they both have visas to come to the UAE, but they have put the life of their child at risk."
According to The National, the couple have been arrested and charged with endangering the life of a child and have been referred to the public prosecutor while the baby is being looked after.
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