Medical Director at Baalbek Hospital Disappears amid Kidnap Suspicions

Contact was lost with the medical director of the Ibn Sina Hospital in the eastern city of Baalbek with reports suspecting that he might have been kidnapped, the state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Saleh al-Shal has gone missing since 7:15 pm on Tuesday, said NNA.

Reports said that the doctor was watering the trees in his farm on the Amshki hills that overlook the city of Baalbek.

The janitor later saw a pick-up truck drive quickly out of the farm. He ran headlong to check on al-Shal but found no one while the water was still flowing out of the watering hose.

Members of his family kicked off a night search that went on until the early hours on Wednesday but failed to find him.