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.
