When playing hide and seek, players may entertain the idea of their friends never finding them throughout the game. Hoping to never blow their cover, they’ll stay in hiding for a long time.
That was what must’ve crossed this Bangladeshi boy’s mind when he snuck into a shipping container during such a game.
He ended up falling asleep inside and was whisked away on a vessel along with the container. He was found in Malaysia six days later.
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Hungry and in shock, the authorities later dismissed the theory that he was a victim of human trafficking and sent him to a hospital for a health check-up.
According to The New Straits Times, the authorities discovered the lost child after hearing knocking from inside a shipping container.
Port workers then pried the container open, only for a gangling kid to come walking through the doors.
A video of this moment has circulated online, showing the boy understandably confused by his foreign surroundings.
Authorities gestured for the kid to sit down as the video ends.
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In another video, the boy conversed with local authorities and managed to tell them his name.
Source: @jnmalaysia on Twitter
The person talking to the boy seemed to explain to those around him that the boy speaks in a different dialect from what he understands.
The Daily Mail reports that the kid found himself stuck in the container after playing a game of hide-and-seek in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on 11 Jan.
After falling asleep, he went on a six-day-long journey across the Indian Ocean and arrived in Port Klang in Malaysia.
The boy, identified only as Fahim, was found with a fever and taken to Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital nearby for treatment.
Although authorities first feared that he was a victim of human trafficking, they later learned of his story and rubbished the theory.
Reports claim that the boy was sent home on the same vessel.
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Featured image adapted from @al_zach90 on TikTok and @jnmalaysia on Twitter.
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