Algerian rescued from cellar 26 years after disappearing
The Independent|May 17, 2024
Neighbour, 61, arrested on suspicion of kidnapping teenager
ALISHA RAHAMAN SARKAR
Algerian rescued from cellar 26 years after disappearing

An Algerian man, who went missing as a teenager, has been found alive in the cellar of his alleged kidnapper’s home after 26 years.

Omar Bin Omran left his family home in Djelfa city in 1998 to attend a vocational school and never returned. The disappearance led the teenager’s family to believe that he had been killed in a civil war between the Algerian government and Islamist rebels.

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