Officials have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping him prisoner.

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.

    • LesserAbe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Sorry to further bum but this article says his dog was lingering around the neighbors house after the kidnapping so it’s suspected the neighbor killed the dog. It was found poisoned in front of their house.

      This article says the only reason the kidnapper’s family member snitched was because of an inheritance dispute.