A 15-year-old boy accidentally locked himself inside a container during a game of hide-and-seek with his friends, and was discovered only a week later in another country. He was found in a shocking condition starving and sick. That’s how it ended.
The Bangladeshi boy, identified only by his first name, Pahim, was playing with his friends in the city of Chittagong on January 11 when he hid inside the container and fell asleep, according to the India Times. After a few hours, the container was loaded onto a commercial ship to Malaysia, where the boy was discovered in the Western Port, six days later on January 17.
“We assume the boy went into the container, fell asleep there and found himself here,” Malaysia’s Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nauston Ismail said, according to Bernama, the country’s Southeast Asian news agency.
Fahim was found starving and dehydrated, emerging weakly from the shipping container after arriving in Medina, approximately 3,700 km from his home. Officials said he suffered from a high fever and was taken to the local hospital for medical treatment. The police initially suspected that the boy was involved in a human trafficking scheme , but later and during an investigation, it turned out that he had indeed fallen into the container while playing hide and seek with his friends.