NY Taxis NY Taxi Driver saves Italian Familys VacationTime for some news from across the Atlantic to warm your heart a little. In New York a Bangladeshi taxi driver has returned over $21,000, jewellery and passports that had been left in a handbag in the back of his taxi by an Italian family visiting the States on holiday.

Mukul Asadujjaman, who is currently studying medicine, travelled nearly 50 miles to an address he discovered with the belongings in the back of his cab. When he got to the address there was nobody in the house for him to return the money to, so Mr Asadujjaman left a contact number and waited for the handbag’s owner to contact him.

NYC Street NY Taxi Driver saves Italian Familys VacationThe owner of the bag, Felicia Lettieri from Pompeii, was visiting her sister in Long Island and was extremely relieved when she phoned the contact number and spoke to the cab driver. Mr Asadujjaman then made another trip out to the address to finally reunite Mrs Lettieri with her handbag.

The modest cabbie was offered a reward for such an act of kindness, but the devout Muslim turned down the offer in respect of his beliefs, “I’m needy, but I’m not greedy, it’s better to be honest.” Mr Asadujjaman said. Mrs Lettieri’s sister praised the taxi driver saying that he had saved her family’s holiday.

Mr Asadujjaman is not the first Bangladeshi taxi driver to have handed valuable goods back to their owners, in 2007 Osman Chowdhury returned a bag containing $500,000 worth of diamond rings.

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