Baby Found with Help of Twitter

A family from Sharjah, UAE has been reunited with their newborn daughter after she was stolen accidentally by car thieves. Baby Lailas was in the back of the white Toyota Prado when it was stolen from Sanaiya 6 area on Saturday night after the parents left it with the engine running. After hearing abou the incident the police put out an alert on Twitter, which was quickly retweeted by hundreds of Sharjah residents.

Within hours Ahmed Ibrahim Al Shamsi, an Emirati from Sharjah, contacted police on Twitter to say he had spotted the car. And at 5am, just after dawn, the car was found with Lailas safe inside in Muwailah, a few kilometers from where it was stolen.

The baby was then taken immediately to a hospital were she was found to be in good health, Maj Al Shihi said. The family were reunited in time for before Eid prayers.

WE SAID THIS: Seems that the increase use of social media in the middle east has been helping out in new ways in the region!