Boy trapped in shipping container for five days


KLANG: The viral photo of a boy on social media claiming that he was a foreign stowaway found in a container at Westport was confirmed by the South Klang police on Friday (Jan 20).

However, the foreign boy was not a stowaway who had sneaked into the country, but was instead unintentionally locked up in the container after playing in it with some friends in Chittagong in Bangladesh.

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