BEIRUT: Two teenage brothers kidnapped near Baalbek, east Lebanon, over the weekend have been released, a security source told The Daily Star Thursday.
The source said that Ali Mehdi, 15, and his brother Hussein, 17, were handed over to their parents by the Lebanese Army.
The brothers, who hail from the border town of Hamm, near the Hezbollah stronghold of Brital, just south of Baalbek, were snatched by a number of unidentified men early Sunday morning.
A security source at the time said the boys’ mother, Zainab, told police that her children had been kidnapped at dawn Sunday and that the captors then demanded a $100,000 ransom for their release.
It was not clear whether a ransom had been paid.
Police are continuing their investigation into the incident.
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