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Kidnapped Kuwaiti national released in Lebanon

Xinhua, February 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced Friday that it has successfully managed to release a Kuwaiti citizen who was kidnapped last December in the eastern Bekaa region.

The ISF said in a communique that "the Information Branch successfully released a Kuwaiti national who was abducted last December in a special operation in the region of Taanayel in the central Bekaa."

It added "the Information Branch freed Mohsen Barrack al- Majed who was abducted from his farm in Qoub Elias on December 17 at the hands of anonymous culprits."

The communique said that "the operation led to the arrest of all the gang members who abducted al-Majed and asked for a 1.5 million U.S. dollars from his family in Kuwait to release him."

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have regularly issued travel warnings advising their citizens to avoid traveling to Lebanon because of fear on their security. Endit