Miracle rescue: 15-Year-Old Boy Who Entered a Shipping Container While Playing Hide-and-Seek Wakes up in Another Country

15-Year-Old Boy Who Entered a Shipping Container While Playing Hide-and-Seek Wakes up in Another Country: Fahim, a 15-year-old boy from Bangladesh, found himself in an unexpected situation when he snuck into a shipping container during a game of hide and seek with his friends.

Unbeknownst to him, he fell asleep and woke up 2,000 miles away from home, in Malaysia. After six days of being stuck in the container, he was rescued at the nick of time, dehydrated, exhausted and feverish.

Daily Mail reported that Fahim was playing hide and seek in Chittagong, Bangladesh on January 11 and got stuck in the container.

It turned out that he sailed with Integra container ship across the Indian Ocean after he was mistakenly locked up. Malaysian port staff and police officers found him after one of the staff heard knocking on one of the containers.

Malaysian Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said, according to Bernama, a Malaysian news agency, “The boy was just believed to have entered the container, fell asleep, and found himself here.”

In a video seen on Reddit, the lad was crying for food, dehydrated and confused, and was placed on a stretcher and covered in a blanket. He was taken to Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital where he is said to be in stable condition.

Authorities initially feared that he was a victim of human trafficking, but repatriation processes have begun for young Fahim.