British Teen Alex Batty, Missing For 6 Years Found In France, Seeks Reunion With Family
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Alex used a delivery driver's phone to message his grandmother in the UK, saying "I love you, I want to come home".
In a remarkable turn of events, a British teenager named Alex Batty, who had been missing for the past six years, was discovered in the mountains of France. In an emotional Facebook message, he reached out to his grandmother for the first time in six years, using the phone of the French man who encountered him while he was wandering in the mountains.
Now 17-year-old Alex Batty is at a young person's centre in Toulouse and could be back in the UK within hours, the prosecutors' office in the city told the BBC.
As per the news story, Alex who is a resident of Oldham, a town in Greater Manchester, was 11 years old when he disappeared after going on holiday with his mother and grandfather in Spain.
