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Frits Buter in Paris in 2014 hours before his bag with his iPad, money, and other valuables was stolen. The photo was recovered from his iPad ten years later. (Supplied)
Lost photos took 10 years and more than 9 000 kilometres to return to a South African man who had his iPad stolen in France.
Frits Buter was surprised two weeks ago when a woman in his hometown called to tell him that she had his iPad, which had been stolen during a train tour in 2014.
Even more incredible, all the photos from the trip were still on the device.
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