Boy Hides in Shipping Container, Ends Up in Another Country

How about this for a game of hide and seek? A boy hid in a shipping container and ended up in another country! The boy from Bangladesh is super lucky to be alive after hiding in the shipping container while playing hide and seek. The young boy named “Fahim” was locked inside for six days.

It all ended on January 17. Workers were unloading containers off of a Bangladeshi vessel, in Malaysia’s Port Klang. They were shocked to see a totally lost and confused boy step out of one of the containers. He didn’t speak the local language so the port authorities couldn’t get any information out of him. They thought he was the victim of a human trafficking crime organization, so they immediately called the police. It turned out, that the young boy had been playing hide and seek with friends in his home city of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He found a great spot to hide!  A shipping container. He got locked inside and spent the next six days on a ship to Malaysia.

Picture of the moment they found him shows the boy looking totally confused by the unfamiliar surroundings.  The poor boy steps out of the shipping container and almost falls. He is later taken to a local hospital.

He told Malaysian investigators that he "fell asleep in the shipping container while hiding from his friends, and then found himself locked in. Despite his cries for help, no one came to his rescue, so he spent six days locked inside." The container he was in traveled almost 2,000 miles to Port Klang, Malaysia.