An Algerian man who disappeared 26 years ago has been found alive and yards away from his home after years of searching.
According to a story in The Sunday Times, Omar Bin Omran disappeared from his home in El Guedid, around 320km from the capital, Algiers, in 1998. It wasn’t until recently, when a Facebook post tipped off the village, that Bin Omran, now 45, was discovered being held captive, seemingly in plain sight, at a neighbor’s house a little more than 200 meters (650 feet) away.
The neighbor, and prime suspect in this case, is a shepherd 16 years Bin Omran’s senior, who had befriended him years earlier. As to why the shepherd, who remains anonymous, held Bin Omran captive so long is still unknown.
