Dubai: A woman gave birth in a toilet at Dubai airport, then allegedly strangled the newborn, and dumped the corpse in a bin, before catching a flight out of the country, a media report said.
Police are now looking for the mother, believed to be an Ethiopian in her thirties, who was identified using close-circuit security camera footage at Dubai International Airport, after the infant's body was discovered by a cleaner.
The woman allegedly severed the baby boy's umbilical cord with her bare hands and strangled him with a cloth before dumping him; traces of blood led to the bin where the baby was found, soaked in blood, tied up with his umbilical cord in a tightly wrapped plastic bag, 'The Khaleej Times' reported.
"At around 3.35 am I went to the toilet to clean up the blood around a toilet bowl. After that I decided to empty the waste bin which was covered with paper rolls.
"When I lifted it I found it to be a little heavier, so I got curious and started removing the tissue papers. I was stunned to see a baby all blue on the face and gasping for breath," the airport cleaner was quoted as saying.
A security source added: "Most likely the woman wanted to get rid of the baby as it was a child outside wedlock. It seems that the woman had intended to leave the UAE before the delivery but was faced with different reality in the airport."
Having a child outside wedlock is a criminal offence in the UAE that carry sentence of up to three years in jail.
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