Lebanese Taxi Driver Kidnapped for Ransom
A taxi driver was kidnapped at dawn Thursday in Dora, the latest in the string of abductions in return for ransom, the state-run National News Agency reported.
NNA said Joseph Issa al-Khawli disappeared on Wednesday night. But alleged abductors contacted his son asking for a 50,000-dollar-ransom.
The head of the General Syndicate of Lebanon's Taxi Drivers, Marwan Fayyad, told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) that al-Khawli hails from the eastern town of Riyaq and resides in Ghazir, north of Beirut.
He said the abductee called his wife on Wednesday night to inform her that he was driving a man to Batroun after taking Syrians to the area of Ajaltoun.
But he failed to return home.
Later, an unknown man contacted his wife asking for the 50,000 dollar ransom to release him, Fayyad told VDL.
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