The police authority in Spain has discovered a boy enclosed in a migrant suitcase by his father smuggled into the country from Morocco .
The boy, Abou, 8 was found inside the case being carried by a 19-year-old woman into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave next to Morocco, on Thursday 7, 2015.
The police through its spokesperson, Guardia Civil, told the media that they found the boy in a "terrible state". He reported to be from Ivory Coast. The police chief further disclosed that after the discovery, the boy has bee taken to hospital in Ceuta for medical examination.
Further investigation showed that the contracted by the Moroccan courier through his father to carry the suitcase. The father lives in the Canary Islands and had hoped to be reunited with his son.
The Spanish news agency Efe said the boy's father, also named Abou, had travelled back to Ivory Coast to pick him up, having moved to Gran Canaria in 2013.
The father then reportedly paid the Moroccan courier to carry the suitcase. A police spokesman told Efe: "She seemed to hesitate, and it looked as though she didn't want to come through the border.
"At first we thought that there could be drug packages, but gradually discovered that it was a human body."
The boy's father travelled across the border an hour-and-a-half after his son. At that point, Efe said, he was detained by border guards.
Ceuta and another Spanish enclave, Melilla, sit on Morocco's Mediterranean coast, and are each surrounded on three sides by Morocco. The two border town are surrounded by six-metre-high fences, the enclaves have proved to be popular areas for migrants to try to cross into Europe from Africa. Human Tights Watch revealed that at least 4,300 African migrants entered Ceuta and Melilla illegally in 2013, compared to 2,804 the year before.
credit- AFP, BBC and EL Pas
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