
A 41-year-old Spanish fan who set out to walk to Qatar to attend the World Cup in November has gone missing in Iran, where unrest has erupted in the past few weeks, Spain's Foreign Ministry has confirmed, Reuters reports. Santiago Sanchez was last heard from on 1 October, when he sent friends a picture of himself on the Iraq-Iran border with the caption: "Entry to Iran". Some Spanish media suggest Sanchez had been arrested by the Iranian authorities, and his parents in Madrid told Telecinco TV channel that was the most likely possibility. "A 99 per cent chance*that*he is in a prison in Iran, but the (Spanish) embassy has told my daughter that until they go to the prison to […]
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