Lebanese citizen Louay
Mansour, 23, has been missing since last week in Syria, Lebanon’s National News
Agency reported on Wednesday.
In the Tyre District town
of Maaroub, Louay’s father, Mohammed, told NNA that his son went missing while
on his way to his family’s home in the Syrian capital Damascus.
“Louay was buying some
stuff from one of the shops on Abbasiyyin Street in Damascus and he was not
carrying any identification papers as he had left them home before heading to
buy some items,” the father added.
He noted that the family
“contacted all Syrian security agencies, especially the Abbasiyyin police
station in Damascus,” adding that none of them had any information about the
fate of his son.
Louay’s father urged
President Michel Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Miqati
to take steps and help unveil the fate of his son.
On Monday, a Syrian
rebel group kidnapped Lebanese national Hassan Salim al-Meqdad in Damascus,
accusing him of being a sniper belonging to Hizbullah. The party and Meqdad’s
family denied the claims.
Al-Meqdad family
announced on Wednesday that its military wing has so far kidnapped more than 20
Free Syrian Army members in Lebanon to try to secure the release of Hassan.
It later said that it
had abducted near Beirut a Turkish national of the Soufan family.
Syrian rebel groups have
frequently accused Hizbullah -- which is closely allied with the regime of
President Bashar Assad -- of interfering in the violence, though the group has
consistently denied this.
Eleven Lebanese Shiite
pilgrims were kidnapped in the Syrian town of Aazaz in Aleppo province on May
22. They entered Syria from neighboring Turkey and were on their way home from
pilgrimage in Iran.http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/50166
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