A man who vanished almost 30 years ago at the age of 17 following an alleged kidnapping has been found alive in his neighbour’s house in a hole in the ground in a sheep pen underneath stacks of hay.
Named as Omar Bin Omran (or Imran) and said to be one of nine children, he is believed to have disappeared in the city of Djelfa in Algeria 27 years ago.
His family assumed he had been killed during the civil war between the North African nation’s government and various Islamist rebel groups that raged for 10 years in the 1990s and early 2000s.
The truth was much closer to home: the missing man was found in his neighbour’s house less than 200 metres away from that of his own family. A 61-year-old is now in police custody after Omar, now 45,…
