In a outstanding flip of occasions, a British teenager named Alex Batty, who had been lacking for the previous six years, was found within the mountains of France. In an emotional Fb message, he reached out to his grandmother for the primary time in six years, utilizing the cellphone of the French man who encountered him whereas he was wandering within the mountains.

Now 17-year-old Alex Batty is at an adolescent’s centre in Toulouse and might be again within the UK inside hours, the prosecutors’ workplace within the metropolis informed the BBC.

As per the information story, Alex who’s a resident of Oldham, a city in Better Manchester, was 11 years previous when he disappeared after happening vacation along with his mom and grandfather in Spain.

A police supply earlier informed BBC Information the boy had been taken to a police station by the involved motorist who had noticed him on a street within the foothills of the Pyrenees early on Wednesday morning.
The motorist, supply driver Fabien Accidini, noticed Alex strolling alongside a street within the foothills of the Pyrenees within the early hours of Wednesday morning.

“He defined that he had been strolling for 4 days and that he set off from a spot within the mountains, although he did not say the place,” Mr Accidini mentioned.

“I typed his identify into the web and noticed that he was being seemed for,” he mentioned.

Alex used Mr Accidini’s Fb account to contact his grandmother again within the UK.

He wrote: “Howdy Grandma, it is me Alex. I am in France Toulouse. I actually hope that you just obtain this message. I really like you, I wish to come dwelling.”

A spokesperson for Better Manchester Police mentioned: “It is a advanced and long-running investigation, and we have to make additional inquiries in addition to put acceptable safeguarding measures in place.”