Algerian man kidnapped and held captive by his neighbour for 26 years before being discovered alive in a hole under hay bales is in 'good health', his cousin reveals - but remains 'shocked' after the 'catastrophic' ordeal

Omar Bin Omran, from El Guedid near Djelfa, 150 miles south of Algiers, was just 19 when he disappeared in 1998 on his way to a vocational school at the height of Algeria's civil war.