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When Omar Bin Omran vanished almost 30 years ago at the age of 17, his family thought he had been killed during The Algerian Civil War that ravaged the country in the late 90s.

Omram, however, had been kept hidden in a hole in his neighbour’s sheep pen for the last 27 years, until police finally rescued the poor oke this week.

Now aged 45, Omran was rescued from the home of a 61-year-old, who is now in police custody, BBC reported.

According to footage that’s been shared on social media and Algerian television networks, the 45-year-old was found in a hole in the ground in a sheep pen surrounded by hay, located in the cellar of the man’s home. Reports also suggest that his dog used to wait on the doorstep of the house – before the dog later vanished, too.

Amid an unsuccessful search for Omran in 1998 after he went missing while on his way to a vocational school, the alleged kidnapping took place due to an inheritance dispute, according to comments made by his brother on social media.

“The missing person was found and the suspect, the 61-year-old owner of the house was arrested.”

Chaotic footage shows the poor guy being dragged from the hole in the ground.

A court official in Djelfa said: “Two days ago, on 12 May 2024, the Public Prosecutor’s Office received, through the regional department of the National Gendarmerie in El Jadid, a complaint against an anonymous person claiming that the complainant’s brother, Omar bin Omran, who has been missing for about 30 years, is in the house of one of his neighbours, inside a sheep pen.”

Omran’s mother died in 2013 without knowing the truth of what happened to her son. Local media report that he was told of his mother’s death whilst in captivity.

Officials say that the “perpetrator of this heinous crime”, who worked as a civil servant, will be tried with “severity.”

Jislaaik, how evil must you be to keep a guy locked up in a hole for 27 years?

[sources:bbc&ladbible]