Two parents were detained at an airport after leaving their baby at a check-in while they tried to board a flight.
The couple, with Belgian passports, attempted to board a plane at the Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv but left their baby - who did not have a ticket - behind.
Shocked airport staff at the Israel airport alerted police when the parents then attempted to board a Ryanair flight to Brussels in Belgium without the baby, instead of trying to buy an extra ticket.
The infant was instead left in a carseat as the couple strolled to passport control. After staff alerted police they immediately detained the parents for questioning, the Mirror reports.
The manager of the Ryanair desk said: "We've never seen anything like this. We couldn't believe what we were seeing."
According to the Israel Airports Authority, the couple arrived late to Terminal 1 and the check-in counter for their flight had closed.
They wanted to go through to deal with security and leave their baby on the conveyor belt in the area.
People travelling with a child can either buy a separate seat at a standard adult fare or pay around £25 for a lap seat, according to Ryanair.
Footage of the incident shows shocked check-in workers finding the very small baby inside a car seat after moving a blanket.
The authorities said that a shift manager, which handles services at the airport, "took the couple back to the flight counters to take the baby and called the police and a security guard. The couple took the baby back."
At Daytona Airport in Florida in October, a a 62-year-old grandfather was arrested when it was discovered he had left a nearly two-year-old child in the back of a locked rental car.
And mother on a Saudia Arabian left her baby at the airport in 2019, forcing the airline to turn back to its departure point.
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