He boarded the train and then got lost at the age of 17. The story of an Egyptian young man who returned to his family thanks to the communication sites

Seventeen years after his disappearance, the young man, Nasser Samir, returned to his family in the city of Menouf, in the Menoufia Governorate, in northern Egypt, according to local media.

The story is told by Hajj Samir, the father of the young Nasser, to Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, saying, "My son disappeared at the age of ten, when he was working in a carpentry workshop in Cairo, and we were surprised by his disappearance for 17 years."

He added, "We searched for him everywhere to no avail. I slept in the streets looking for my son, and I did not lose hope in his return. I resorted to charlatans, and paid a lot of money, and some of them assured me that he had drowned, but I never despaired. I did not taste the taste of sleep." I was thinking about him all the time."

He continued, "I wrote a report and sent distress faxes (messages) to all agencies. We posted a picture of him on Facebook, and I contacted one of the pages searching for missing children, and they confirmed that my son is in Cairo. I could not believe that I saw my son after an absence of 17 years. My joy is indescribable." My tears fell from me as soon as I saw him, and my heart said that he was my son.

The young Nasser, who returned to his family, told the story of his disappearance to Cairo 24 newspaper, saying, "When I was 10 years old, I was working as a carpenter in a workshop in Cairo, and I rode the Menouf train, but I lost my way and could not return again to my family."

He continued, "I traveled to Cairo. I used to sleep on the ground at the side of the road at times, and at other times I was looking for work in order to provide for a living. This situation lasted for a while before I met a family who decided to help me provide work and housing, and I worked in a printing press, and the employer provided me with I live in an apartment alone.

Nasser continued, "After all these years have passed, I received a call from one of the people who lived with me, and he informed me that my family was publishing my picture on social media and searching for me, and indeed, I received a call from them."

As for his mother, she said, "I never lost hope that my son would return again, despite the passage of all these years. We searched for him a lot everywhere until God wanted him to return after 17 years of absence."