Container stowaway boy not a trafficking victim


PETALING JAYA: A boy playing in the docks of Chittagong climbed into a container, fell asleep and got locked in. The container was then hoisted onto a ship which sailed for five days from Bangladesh to Klang.

Hungry, dehydrated and feverish, the boy named Fahim was found inside the container when it was unloaded after the ship arrived in Westport on Jan 17.

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