Amchit Child Released after '$50,000 Ransom' Paid
Abducted child Ricardo Jaara was released Monday after a three-day kidnap ordeal, media reports said.
“Jaara was freed this afternoon after he was kidnapped two days ago near his house in Amchit,” LBCI television reported.
“His father headed to (the northern border district of) Wadi Khaled, where he handed $50,000 to a man riding a motorcycle,” it added.
According to MTV, Lebanese security authorities have managed to identify the kidnappers, who include "Lebanese and Syrian nationals." It said efforts are underway to locate them and arrest them.
LBCI had reported Sunday that the captors lowered the ransom “from $250,000 to $100,000.”
It said the family received a phone call from “a Syrian number operating on the Syrian network.”
“There are suspicions that the kidnappers are in the border area between Lebanon and Syria,” LBCI went on to say.
Y.R.
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