Airport couple arrested over baby in bag
An Egyptian couple tried to smuggle a newborn baby through an airport scanner in a holdall.
The parents decided to put the boy in the bag in an attempt to get him into the United Arab Emirates after he was refused entry at Sharjah International Airport because he didn't have a visa.
Security officials were stunned when they spotted the little one – who was put in danger after being exposed to radiation in the X-ray machine – in the holdall, and his parents were immediately arrested and charged with endangering the baby's life.
A Sharjah police spokesman said: “They were risking the life of the baby. They said in an interrogation they had resorted to sneaking him through inside a bag because he did not have a passport or visa and they wanted to have him with them in the UAE.”
