An Algerian man has been found alive in a cellar after going missing around 26 years ago.
The BBC have reported that Omar bin Omran disappeared from Djelfa, in Algeria, during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, when he was a teenager.
Bin Omran, now 45, was found just 200 metres away from where he grew up.
Officials said they have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping bin Omran prisoner.
The 45-year-old disappeared in the middle of a decade-long war between the Algerian government and Islamist groups.
His family assumed he had been killed, but he was found in a sheepfold under haystacks on May 12.
BBC have reported a court official said the public prosecutor's office received a complaint against an anonymous person claiming bin Omran was in the house of his neighbour.
"Following this report, the general prosecutor ordered the national gendarmerie to open an in-depth investigation and officers went to the house in question.
"On 12 May at 8pm local time, [they] found victim Omar bin Omran, aged 45, in the cellar of his neighbour, BA, aged 61."
The suspect reportedly tried to flee but was arrested.
BBC reported "Omran told his rescuers he had at times seen his family from his prison, but claimed he had been unable to call out for help because of a spell that his captor had cast on him."
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