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Spaniard Santiago Sanchez, who was documenting his travel by foot from Madrid to Doha. [AP]
A Spanish man who was documenting his ambitious journey by foot from Madrid to Doha for the 2022 Fifa World Cup has not been heard from since crossing into Iran three weeks ago, his family said yesterday, stirring fears about his fate in a country convulsed by mass unrest.
The experienced trekker, former paratrooper and fervent football fan, 41-year-old Santiago Sanchez, was last seen in Iraq after hiking through 15 countries and extensively sharing his journey on a popular Instagram account over the last nine months. But his exuberant posts stopped suddenly on October 1, the day he entered Iran from the country's volatile northwestern border.
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