Stowaway found in shopping trolley
HIDDEN under bags of fruit and vegetables, this poor Palestinian boy was not having the easiest path to a promised new life.
The ten-year- old was found by Spanish police inside a shopping trolley being pulled by a couple trying to get to Spain from Morocco on Monday.
The Moroccan man and woman were arrested after suspicious officers approached them in the city of Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the north African coast, and a notorious smuggling point.
It is thought the boy’s mother, who was found living in Melilla’s temporary migrants’ shelter, had paid for him to make the journey to Europe. It is not known if he had family waiting to pick him up on the other side.