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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Paul Whitelam & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Dad-of-two shares horror 6-month ordeal as Taliban hostage with no daylight for 2 months

A man has spoken of his six-month ordeal after being held hostage by the Taliban, going eight weeks without seeing daylight.

Anthony Stephen Malone has recalled the "surreal" moment in December last year he was captured and taken captive nearly 5,000 miles away in Afghanistan.

The 50-year-old, a security consultant helping to extract vulnerable families to safety for a self-funded humanitarian mission, was grabbed off the streets of Kabul with a colleague.

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