Man found with corpse in sealed container

• Clivebenss

  12 Apr 11, 14:29

  Apr 12, 2011 - Straits Times

  Bangladeshi survivor taken to hospital after being rescued

  DOCK workers at Pasir Panjang Container Terminal were startled when they heard banging sounds coming from a container on Sunday night.

  The container, which had been there since late last month, was supposed to be empty.

  When the workers opened it, they were shocked by what they found - a Bangladeshi man alive and frantic to get out because he could no longer bear the stench from the decomposing corpse of another Bangladeshi.

  It is believed the container had come from Bangladesh with the two men in it, and had been dropped off at the port.

  Dock workers who spoke to The Straits Times said that all containers from Singapore are put through a scanner when they are transported into the port, but containers that are in transit from another country might not undergo that process.

  But these transit containers, they said, are sealed, and it would be almost impossible for people to get into them.

• TIB1167D

  12 Apr 11, 19:00

  Ouch. That must've stunk.

  I feel sorry for these indian nationals.

• Darkness_hacker99

  12 Apr 11, 19:03

  ".... because he could no longer bear the stench from the decomposing corpse of another Bangladeshi".

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  12 Apr 11, 19:04

  Haiz

   

   

• Clivebenss

  15 Apr 11, 13:35

  Apr 15, 2011 - Straits Times
  

  Men found in containers 'had smoked marijuana'

  They dozed off, not realising container was being moved: Survivor

  

  Mr Din Islam (above) and Mr Alamgir were trapped inside a container on board a ship while it made the five-day journey from Bangladesh to Singapore. They then spent about five days at the Pasir Panjang terminal after arriving here. They had no food and water and the air was dank and stale. Mr Alamgir did not survive the ordeal. -- PHOTO: COURTESY OF AKM MOHSIN, BANGLAR KANTHA

  By Tham Yuen-C

  
  

  THE two Bangladeshi men who were discovered inside a container at Pasir Panjang Port Terminal on Sunday had apparently been high on drugs.

  
  

  That was the reason they did not hear the container door being locked at the Chittagong port, Mr Din Islam, the only survivor, told a fellow Bangladeshi here.

  'This is a strange and daunting world he's landed in: Singapore's container port, the Alexandra Hospital, the police looking into the charge of illegal entry... and the Bangladeshi High Commission. Now he simply wants to go home.'

  Mr AKM Mohsin, editor of local Bengali newspaper Banglar Kanthar, who spoke to Mr Din.

• Clivebenss

  15 Apr 11, 13:58

  Will be hard to charge for illegal entry. Intent of illegal entry not there.

• MythosLogos

  15 Apr 11, 14:06

  I would have vomit my guts out if I'm left in a small enclosed space with a decomposing body.

• Clivebenss

  15 Apr 11, 14:08

  the marijuana might has help to keep him hallucinating.