Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar
A man has been found alive in his neighbour’s cellar after going missing about 26 years ago.
Omar bin Omran disappeared from Djelfa, in Algeria, during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, when he was in his late teens.
Now aged 45, Mr Bin Omran has been discovered just 200m from where he grew up.
Officials confirmed they had arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping him prisoner.
Mr Bin Omran’s disappearance came in the middle of a decade-long conflict between Algeria’s government and Islamist groups.
His family feared he had been among an estimated 200,000 killed, or as many as 20,000 kidnapped, during the unrest.
But he was found hidden in a sheepfold under haystacks on 12 May, according to reports.
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