Case of missing boy at Dubai Global Village solved

Dubai - Warrant officer Sulatan Abdullah Ali blamed the mother for negligence.

After Dubai's bustling Global Village closed its doors at 1.30am and everyone had gone, two policemen were surprised to find an unattended child crying near the entrance, apparently left behind by his parents.
The two officers - warrant officer Sultan Abdullah and Sergeant Yousuf Hassan Ahmed - tried to find out why he was alone at that time, and it appeared he was lost.
The 13-year-old boy told the cops that he had gone to the Global Village with his mother, and that she, his father and brother were staying at a hotel near Burj Khalifa.
The boy said he didn't know the name of the hotel or its location and insisted that the two cops take him back to his family.
The officers soon discovered that he had a mobile phone with the number of a neighboring GCC country. "We called the family number in the contacts icon, but with no avail as there was no credit in the phone."
The police then called all the hotels located near Burj Khalifa and finally traced the hotel in which the family was staying.
The officers soon took the boy to the hotel, where the family was waiting.
The father of the boy praised the Dubai Police for finding his son and bringing him back, which he said was evidence that Dubai is a safe place for visitors.
Warrant officer Sulatan Abdullah Ali blamed the mother for negligence. It appeared that she returned to the hotel in a cab thinking that the son had taken another cab and returned to the hotel.
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