Couple forget newborn in taxi

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Couple forget newborn in taxi

Berlin - The taxi driver was alerted by the newborn's cries when he was at the airport picking up a passenger.

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Published: Fri 24 May 2019, 2:25 PM

Last updated: Fri 24 May 2019, 4:28 PM

A couple in Germany accidentally forgot their newborn in the taxi that drove them home from the hospital.
Hamburg police said that the parents took their one-year-old child out of the taxi and paid the driver, then as the taxi pulled away they remembered that they had forgotten the newborn inside.
The father tried to follow the taxi on foot but failed. The driver unaware of a newborn in the backseat parked his car and went for a lunch break, CTV News reported.
The taxi driver was alerted by the newborn's cries when he was at the airport picking up a passenger. The driver immediately called the police and the newborn was taken for a check-up by medics then picked up by the parents.


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