Boy picks shipping container for hide-and-seek, ends up 2,500 km from home – National | 24CA News
A easy recreation of hide-and-seek was a 2,500-kilometre mishap after a Bangladeshi teen fell asleep inside a delivery container and was despatched to Malaysia.
The 15-year-old boy, recognized solely by his first title, Fahim, was enjoying the sport together with his buddies at Bangladesh’s Chittagong seaport on Jan. 11 when he discovered what he thought was the proper place to cover – the within of an open delivery container.
The solely drawback is that Fahim by accident locked himself inside and couldn’t work out tips on how to open the doorways.
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Sure sufficient, nobody might hear the 15-year-old’s cries for assist, and the container was loaded onto a Malaysia-bound business vessel, reviews the Times of India.
According to varied media reviews, the teenager spent between 5 and 6 days contained in the container because the boat made its 2,500-kilometre journey to Malaysia’s Klang port, docking on Jan. 17.
It was his cries for assist and pounding on the container partitions that tipped off the Klang Port Authority to his existence.
Video shared on-line, and verified by the Times of India, seems to point out the boy rising from the container earlier than being taken away on a stretcher.
At first, as a result of the boy didn’t converse the language and couldn’t clarify to his rescuers how he ended up in such a predicament, police thought that he was a sufferer of human trafficking.
“He was the only one found in the container. A police report was lodged and as he was having a fever, he was taken for medical examination,” Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Malaysia’s residence minister, was quoted as saying by the nation’s nationwide news company Bernama.
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However, whereas Fahim was in hospital, police realized that he was merely a child enjoying a recreation that landed him in a precarious scenario.
“Investigations found no elements of human trafficking. The boy is just believed to have entered the container, fell asleep and found himself here,” Ismail mentioned on Jan. 20.
Fahim shall be repatriated to Bangladesh.
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