Boy ends up in another country after hide & seek goes wrong
Although it sounds like something out of Narnia, the unlucky boy in this real-life story must not have been as pleasantly wondered as Lucy Pevensie.
As you play hide and seek, imagine hiding under a parked container. As you slept, you woke up in another nation. Sounds like a twist in a survival film, don’t you think?
However, it actually occurred with a 15-year-old Bangladeshi kid.
Fahim was reportedly sent from Bangladesh to Malaysia after playing with pals in the port city of Chittagong and hiding in a cargo container.
A confused and starving youngster emerged from one of the containers on January 17 while Malaysia’s Port Klang personnel were unloading containers from a Bangladeshi ship.
It was quite difficult to communicate with the youngster because of his native tongue.
It’s believed that while waiting to be discovered inside the container, the child dozed off and realized too late that the container was being shipped overseas.
Authorities alerted the police right away because they thought he was a victim of a human trafficking crime ring.
However, it turned out that neither human trafficking nor any other crime had actually occurred, and it was just another ordinary day gone bad for the child.
The details showed that the ship left the port of Chittagong on January 11 and arrived at Port Klang in Malaysia on January 17, 3.700 Km away from his home.
The youngster begged for help inside the container while it was sealed up for six days, but no one could hear him. Everyone is still baffled as to how he managed to survive for six days without even a sip of water or food.
According to the Malaysian National News Agency, Malaysian Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution bin Ismail stated, “We presume the youngster entered the container, fell asleep, and found himself here.”
Fahim’s trip back home was administratively begun last week, and there were rumors that he would even be able to travel back to Bangladesh on the same ship — not in the same shipping container, of course.