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Fabien Accidini couldn't believe his ears when 17-year-old Alex Batty told him he'd been "kidnapped". "I had to ask him to repeat" what he was saying, chiropractic student Fabien Accidini tells AFP during a game of pétanque with a friend in the village of Gréasque, 30 km from Marseille. The British teenager who had been missing for six years was picked up by Accidini in the middle of the night on a remote road in a mountainous area of southern France. SOUNDBITE
Images of the area near Chalabre, in southern France, where a UK teenager was found on Wednesday after disappearing in Spain six years ago when he was 11. Alex Batty, originally from the northern English city of Oldham, was picked up by a driver in a mountainous area. IMAGES
Images of the wood near Challans in western France, where the body of Karine Esquivillon, a mother who had been missing for two and a half months, was found by investigators after her husband, Michel Pialle, confessed to the murder during the night. IMAGES
As the clean-up operation continues, rescuers comfort a dog found still alive after having been trapped under the rubble, a week after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Turkey and neighbouring Syria. The disaster has left more than 35,000 dead and millions in dire need of aid. IMAGES