Stranded Lankan vanishes from Venezuela Airport
A Sri Lankan who was reportedly stranded at the Caracas’s International Airport in Venezuela for four months has mysteriously disappeared, news reports said.
Gizmodo.com reported that the man who was originally from Sri Lanka came to
The authorities can’t say if he has returned to Sri Lanka or if he is staying in the country
Venezuela without a visa and as there was no Sir Lankan embassy or consulate there, the process to return him to his original country could not be set in motion.
The man, identified as one Parameswaran, was instructed not to leave the building because he didn’t have any docu- ments. He relied on the help of airport workers as he had no money of his own and slept on the airport’s international terminal floor and washed in the public restrooms.
The Digital Journal reported there was confusion about where exactly the man had arrived from, with Venezuela Amnesty International representative Manuel Gago maintaining that the man arrived in Caracas from Mexico where he embarked by mistake on a flight to Venezuela.
This is not the first time a man has used an airport as his residence. Iranian Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who lived in the Charles de Gaulle’s Terminal One from August 1988 to July 2006 was made famous when his autobiography was used as the basis for the movie The Terminal starring Tom Hanks. Mr. Parameswaran’s story was well-known after it was put on YouTube (in Spanish).