ITALY (Web Desk) – An Afghan migrant travelled 400 kilometres (250 miles) along an Italian highway strapped by leather belts to the bottom of a lorry, police said onTuesday.
The 20-year-old youth was arrested after other motorists informed police. Police officials estimated that the boy travelled some 400 KM tied under the truck through a belt.
The truck driver expressed that he was unaware of the man tied under his lorry. He was set free by the authorities after preliminary investigations.
On the other hand, the Afghan man said he had paid 900 euros ($1,017) to a trafficker who had attached him to the lorry on a ferry from Greece, where he had spent six months in a migrant camp, to the Italian port of Brindisi.
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He said his 22 hours under the lorry were tough but not unbearable.
“I have been through much more dangerous things in Afghanistan than this journey,” he said.
The man was ordered to leave Italy within seven days after indicating he did not want to register an asylum request in the country.
