Playing hide and seek, a boy hides in a container: he is found six days later almost 3,200 kilometers away

A Bangladeshi boy playing hide and seek thought he had found the perfect hideout. And if it was. It took six days to find it… almost 3,200 kilometers away.

It happened that the boy, who is 11 years old and has been identified as “Fahim”, chose a container so as not to be found, without however realizing that the boy was inside. they closed the doors and embarked to destination: Malaysia.

Fahim he was locked inside the container for the six days It took the ship carrying him to reach Port Klang, just over 3,000 kilometers away.

Was a real miracle that the boy, who ate or drank nothing during all those days, managed to survive the long journey.

Surprise in a Malaysian port

On January 17, while unloading containers from a ship from Chittagong, Bangladesh, Port Klang personnel from Malaysia he was shocked to see a confused and emaciated boy Exit one of the containers.

The child did not speak the local language therefore the port authorities could not obtain any information from him, but suspecting that he was the victim of a human trafficking criminal organization, they immediately called the police.

Photos and videos taken by port workers show the skinny guy looking confused from the unknown environment when leaving the container.

He is then picked up by an ambulance and taken to a local hospital.

Eventually, the boy managed to communicate with the authorities. He told her asleep in the dumpster as he hid from his friends and later found himself locked up.

Despite their cries for help, no one came to his rescue, so he spent six days locked inside. Its container was transported by ship, nearly 3,200 kilometers to Port Klang, Malaysia.

The child I hadn’t eaten anything for days when he finally broke out of his metal prison and looked haggard.

Fortunately, stabilized in hospital and should make a full recovery.

Malaysian authorities have confirmed that there is no reason to doubt the story of the child and that there are no human trafficking suspects in this case.

Malaysia has already started the procedures repatriate Fahim to his home country, Bengali.

The Bangladeshi boy can consider himself lucky. Transport ships can spend weeks, even months at sea, and without food and water I would surely have died.