Boy Found in Another Country After Hide-and-Seek Gone Wrong: ‘Stuck for 6 Days’

A young man found himself more than 3,000 kilometres from home after a game of hide-and-seek took a dangerous turn.

The boy snuck into a shipping container while playing hide-and-seek and was found six days later after traveling 2,000 miles across the Indian Ocean to reunite with his family.

Police in Port Klang, Malaysia, released the boy after a worker heard a banging sound while inspecting the container on January 17.

Fahim was playing hide and seek with his friends when he got stuck in a container. Source: CEN

A video of the moment the boy – named Fahim – was released shows him blinking in the sunlight and appearing exhausted and unsteady.

While trapped, Fahim had no access to food or water, and could be seen limping out of the dust-covered container, before staggering to his feet and sitting on the doorstep.

The container ship Integra left Chittagong, Bangladesh, on January 12.

Fahim told police he entered the container while playing hide-and-seek with friends, where he fell asleep, and was accidentally locked in.

When he was found, he was suffering from fever due to the ordeal and was taken to Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang for treatment. His condition is said to be stable.

The boy, known as Fahim, was reunited with his family after six days of ordeal. Source: @saifnasution/CEN

“There was no criminal act in this incident,” Deputy Police Commissioner Cha Hoong Fong said.

Malaysian Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution tweeted that the boy had been reunited with his family.

“Remember the child from Bangladesh found in a container in Port Klang?” he asked.

“His name is Md Ratul Islam Fahim, I just call him Fahim. For six days, Fahim was stuck in a container that had left the port of Bangladesh without food or water. It was a miracle that Fahim was saved.”

He added that the boy had now been reunited with his family and ruled out the possibility of human trafficking.

“We are not linking it to human trafficking because initial investigation revealed that he entered the container, fell asleep and was transported to Malaysia,” he said.

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