A fig plant has played a key role in solving a missing person's case and revealed what happened to him-after it grew from his stomach. In 1974 conflict erupted on Mediterranean island of Cyprus when the Greeks attempted a military coup to depose president Makarios III, but Turkish forces hot back and armed forces invaded the island. The Committe established in 1981 had been for the remains n moof missing people. One of those was Ahmet Herguner.His brother said they searched for him for years but found nothing. Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) became curious when they found a fig tree in the town of Paraklisa, a mountainous area they do not usually grow. The CMP then dug up the area and found three bodies under the tree and took samples for their records. When the CMP learned Ahmet had been one of the people who had gone missing, they were able to identify him, matching the blood samples with DNA fragments. He had been taken to a a cave in and was blown up with dynamite. He had eaten figs before he was blown up, and the seeds of it in his stomach had grown and turned into a tree that identified him.
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