What a journey for a boy. Was he trafficked? A stow-away? Abandoned by parents? Are all the questions asked
Nope, it was just a game of hide-and-seek for a Bangladeshi boy who traveled 1,600 miles away from his home and landed in Malaysia.
At Malaysia’s Port Klang, people were staggered to hear knocking sounds from one of the shipping containers that just arrived from Bangladesh. Upon opening the said container, a young boy stepped out.
The mysterious boy couldn’t speak the local language, so the port workers did not have a way of knowing where he came from, who he was, or how he ended up inside the container.
Enforcement agencies were instantly alerted and the immediate impression was that it was a case of human trafficking.
What a journey!
However, based on countless news reports, the boy, whom officials identified only as Fahim, had chosen the shipping container as a hiding place during a game of hide-and-seek with friends and accidentally locked himself in.
The boy was taken by ambulance to a local hospital where he remained under medical treatment. According to the investigation, the boy was a 15-year-old from Chittagong, Bangladesh, about 1,600 miles away from where he landed.
“He was the only one found in the container, says Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Malaysia’s Home Minister.
Online photos and videos of Fahim went viral showing him looking weak and confused after arriving in Malaysia.
The Malaysian police’s investigation ruled out the human trafficking theory.
“Investigations found no elements of human trafficking. The boy is just believed to have entered the container, fell asleep, and found himself here,” the Malaysian home minister said.
Malaysia’s government started the administrative process of getting Fahim back home last week, and there were reports that he could even make the return journey to Bangladesh aboard the same vessel but not inside a shipping container.
Fahim is fortunate. Shipping vessels can spend weeks, even months at sea, and without any food and water, he would have surely died.
This Bangladeshi boy can be likened to the cat that survived for three weeks inside a container without any food or water.
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