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Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar

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Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar

Interesting Global [email protected]English • 6 months ago

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Officials have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping him prisoner.

Officials have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping him prisoner.

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He went missing in the middle of a civil war when lots of people were being kidnapped and/or killed. Maybe because of this they didn’t look as hard as they otherwise would.
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  That’s not what confuses me, the dude didn’t try to escape for 26 years even though he was only being held in a sheep pasture?

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