Police Rescue 11-Year-Old Kidnapped in Jbeil

An 11-year-old girl was rescued from her kidnappers in the town of Jbeil during a police chase that involved a gunfight, the state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday.

NNA said that Shahideh Farouq Zohbi, 11, who hails from Haizouq in Akkar, was kidnapped by A. Mansour and M. al-Mekdash while she was near a supermarket in Jbeil.

But the town's police and the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch lured the abductors to the Amsheet highway and rescued the girl, who was lightly wounded in the back during the gunfight, the agency said.

Zohbi was taken to Notre Dame de Secours Hospital in Jbeil, it added.

The two suspects were arrested and are being questioned by officers at the Jbeil police station.