Two Men Freed after Brief Abduction in Bekaa
Unknown assailants on Sunday briefly kidnapped two people in the eastern Bekaa region, reported the National News Agency.
The abductees were identified as Hassan Ali Hashish, 27, and Fadi Hamad, 29.
They were eventually released in the afternoon, according to several TV networks.
LBCI television said the two were freed in the al-Taybeh plain area.
Earlier on Sunday, NNA said that the abduction took place as Hashish, owner of a passenger van, was transporting people from Shtaura to Majdaloun in the Bekaa.
His wife Zainab said that she received a telephone call from the assailants from Hamad's phone confirming the kidnapping.
Hamad was with her husband.
The kidnappers informed Zainab that the hostages would only be released when an individual, who was not identified, is freed from a town near Zahle.
Details of this operation and the identity of the individual were not revealed.
M.T./Y.R.
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