A man has been found alive in his neighbour’s cellar following disappearing some 26 years ago.
Omar bin Omran disappeared from Djelfa, Algeria, during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, when he was in his late teens.
Now aged 45, Omar was discovered just 200 meters from where he grew up.
Authorities confirmed they arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of holding him prisoner.
Omar’s disappearance came amid a decade-long conflict between the Algerian government and Islamist groups.
His family feared he was among an estimated 200,000 killed or 20,000 kidnapped during the unrest.
But he was found hiding in a sheepfold under straw on May 12, according to reports.
The prosecutor’s office received a complaint from an anonymous person who claimed Omar was at a neighbor’s house inside a sheepfold, a court official said.
The suspect reportedly tried to flee but was eventually apprehended, the court official said.
The ministry said the investigation is still ongoing and Omar is undergoing medical and psychological care.
A spokesman called the crime “heinous”.
Omar told his rescuers that he had occasionally seen his family from the sheepfold, but claimed he was unable to call for help “because of a spell cast on him by his jailer”, local media reported.
Source: BBC
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