X-ray scan at Spanish border finds child stashed inside suitcase

An eight-year-old boy has been handed over to Spain’s child protection services after he was found curled up in a suitcase as a woman attempted to smuggle him across the border from Morocco.

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Guardia Civil agents noticed that the 19-year-old woman was reluctant to pass through border controls at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, and asked her to place her fuchsia-coloured, wheeled suitcase in an x-ray machine, expecting to find drugs or illegal merchandise inside. Instead, the figure of a young child was clearly outlined in the x-ray. When guards opened the bag, the boy emerged from the suitcase scared and confused, telling authorities that his name was Abou, he was eight years old and from the Ivory Coast. More...

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