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A 15-year-old boy allegedly tried to commit suicide over his parents' light hearted remark that they found him in trash, offended him.
The Gulf teenager made a desperate call to police and said that he was standing on a building and would leap to his death because his parents repeatedly insulted him.
Dr. Major Mohammed Ali Obaid, call centre director, command and control department, Dubai Police, said, "The boy's parents used to tell him that they were not his biological parents and he was found next to a trash container when he was an infant."
After police received the boy's call, a security patrol team was immediately dispatched to the boy's house in Abu Hail area, while a lady staff member at the call centre, Mariam Al Marzouqi, tried to pacify the boy over the phone.
The teenager confided in Marzouqi and told her that he wanted to talk to her as he missed talking to his family. Finally, the boy was rescued safely.
However, this is not the first time such calls are made to '901' hotline number. Earlier also a Gulf woman called because she was let down by a Dubai-based hotel where she had booked a room online. "The woman did not like the room she booked in the hotel and called the Dubai Police call centre," Obaid said.
ahmedshaaban@khaleejtimes.com
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