A man who went missing 26 years ago in Algeria has been found alive in a cellar only a few hundred metres from where he grew up.
Omar bin Omran disappeared from the city of Djelfa during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, when he was a teenager.
But Algerian authorities announced he had been found in the cellar of a neighbour, the BBC reports.
A man aged 61 suspected of keeping him prisoner had been arrested, officials said..
Bin Omran vanished during the bloody conflict between Algeria's government and Islamist groups.
His family feared he was among an estimated 200,000 people killed, or up to 20,000 abducted, during the conflict.
But he was found hidden in a sheep pen under haystacks last Saturday after authorities were alerted by a member of the public.
A local court official said: "Following this report, the general prosecutor ordered the national gendarmerie to open an in-depth investigation and officers went to the house in question".
The 61-year-old man accused of holding bin Omran attempted to flee but was seized by police.
Officials said the investigation was still in progress and bin Omran was undergoing medical and psychological care.
A government spokesman described the crime as "heinous".