A child stowaway was found dead Wednesday in the undercarriage of a plane at a Paris airport, officials said, having probably frozen to death or asphyxiated on the flight from Ivory Coast.
The child, aged around 10, had clambered into the underbelly of the Air France Boeing 777 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It took off on Tuesday evening and landed at Charles de Gaulle airport, north of the capital, early Wednesday morning.
Sources close to the investigation told AFP the boy was about 10 years of age, and that he had "died either from asphyxiation, or from the cold". "Aside from the human drama, this shows a major failing of security at Abidjan airport," an Ivorian security source told AFP, asking how a child, alone, could gain such access.
Laure Palun, director of an association helping migrants, told AFP this type of drama was the inevitable result of the "closure and control of borders".
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