{"id":10105,"date":"2016-03-08T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10105"},"modified":"2016-03-08T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:58:36","slug":"ethiopian-stowaway-seeks-asylum-in-sweden-after-surviving-10-hour-flight-from-addis-ababa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10105","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Stowaway Seeks Asylum in Sweden After Surviving 10-Hour Flight From Addis Ababa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ethiopian_Airlines_Boeing_777-200LR_ET-ANR_7861050552_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-10106 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ethiopian_Airlines_Boeing_777-200LR_ET-ANR_7861050552_2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ethiopian_Airlines_Boeing_777-200LR_ET-ANR_(7861050552)_(2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ethiopian_Airlines_Boeing_777-200LR_ET-ANR_7861050552_2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ethiopian_Airlines_Boeing_777-200LR_ET-ANR_7861050552_2-220x147.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ethiopian_Airlines_Boeing_777-200LR_ET-ANR_7861050552_2.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Police in Sweden have revealed that a 27-year-old stowaway was found alive on Monday aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p>The man, whose identity is yet to be disclosed, was reportedly discovered in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Africa\/News\/migrant-stowaway-survivives-flight-from-ethiopia-20160307\">freight container<\/a> in the cargo area of an Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet.<\/p>\n<p>Baggage handlers reportedly found the Ethiopian man after the flight\u2019s arrival at Stockholm\u2019s Arlanda Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Swedish police spokesperson Lars Bystrom said after the man was discovered, paramedics and police officials were called in. Although the stowaway was tired from the 10-hour long journey, medics say he was healthy and did not require medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was exhausted but alive,\u201d said Albin Naverberg, Stockholm police press spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that he has travelled in the container from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa without any stops. It\u2019s a pretty long journey,\u201d Stockholm police official Carina Skagerlind said.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that the Ethiopian stowaway has submitted an asylum application to Sweden. According to Swedish authorities, the asylum request has since been sent to immigration officials.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden has also launched an <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/sweden-stowaway-found-cargo-hold-ethiopian-airliner-37469713\">investigation <\/a>into the incident. The inquiry will focus on a suspected case of human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>A similar incident occurred in August last year. A stowaway from Ethiopia was found in the cargo hold of a flight heading to Stockholm. The man, an employee at Addis Ababa\u2019s Bole Airport, hid in the airplane\u2019s cargo hold. The stowaway, who spoke through an interpreter, also requested for asylum.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Ethiopian seeking asylum in Sweden increased dramatically in 2015. The number of Ethiopian asylum applicants in the country rose by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20160307\/man-found-in-planes-freight-container-seeks-asylum-in-sweden\">140 percent<\/a> in the first seven months of 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Sweden have revealed that a 27-year-old stowaway was found alive on Monday aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Stockholm. The man, whose identity is yet to be disclosed, was reportedly discovered in a freight container<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10105\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[4967,4695,4696,2394],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10107,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions\/10107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}