A teenager who was
kidnapped in Baalbek on Wednesday night has been released by his captors,
reported Voice of Lebanon radio.
Ali Ahmed al-Mukh’s
father told the radio that his son was released without ransom.
The kidnappers had been
demanding $200,000 for his release.
Mukh, 16, was abducted
by armed men on the Ain Bourday road in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon for ransom,
the state-run National News Agency and Voice of Lebanon radio reported
Thursday.
NNA said Mukh was
driving a BMW 325 at around 11:30 pm Wednesday when the gunmen riding a Jeep
Cherokee blocked the road near al-Bashaer school and forced him out of the car.
The unknown assailants
kidnapped the teen and stole the vehicle, NNA said.
According to his
parents, the teen called them minutes before his abduction to inform them that
he was being chased by the Cherokee. But they later lost contact with him, NNA
added.
VDL (93.3) said the
abductors asked for a $200,000 ransom.
On Sunday, another
teenager was released by his captors after four days of captivity.
Ziad Khaled Abou Esper,
16, was released on the road leading to the town of al-Jamaliya, north of
Baalbek.
The kidnappers had
demanded a $150,000 ransom after seizing him from his father’s cow farm in the
town of Adous.
Interior Minister Marwan
Charbel told VDL that the kidnappers of al-Mukh are the same people who
abducted Abou Esper last week.
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