Dubai's Crown Prince to meet delivery rider behind 'good deed'

Screengrab [@HamdanMohammed/ Twitter]

Dubai's Crown Prince, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum will soon be meeting delivery rider Abdul Ghafoor to thank him for his good deed.

The Talabat employee was spotted in a video, removing concrete blocks from a busy traffic junction.

Sheikh Hamdan initially put a call out on social media, saying, "An act of goodness in Dubai to be praised. Can someone point me to this man?"

In a subsequent post he added that the "good man" had been found.

"Thank you, Abdul Ghafoor, you are one of a kind. We will meet soon!" he said.

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