Spanish authorities found an 8-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast curled up inside a suitcase at a border crossing on Thursday after his father attempted to have him smuggled from Morocco into Ceuta, a Spanish territory.
The plot was foiled when police saw the boy in an X-Ray image as the bag passed through a luggage scanner. When police opened the bag, the boy was in a "terrible state," a Guardia Civil spokesperson told the AFP.
The 19-year-old woman carrying the case was not related to the boy, but had been hired by the boy's father to smuggle him into Ceuta, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais. However, the dad said he was unaware that his son would be stuffed in a suitcase. Read more...
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