Conflict Incident Report

Two men freed after brief abduction in Bekaa

Date of incident:

July 5, 2015

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

Unknown assailants on Sunday briefly kidnapped two people in the eastern Bekaa region, reported the National News Agency.

The abductees were identified as Hassan Ali Hashish, 27, and Fadi Hamad, 29.

They were eventually released in the afternoon, according to several TV networks.

LBCI television said the two were freed in the al-Taybeh plain area.

Earlier on Sunday, NNA said that the abduction took place as Hashish, owner of a passenger van, was transporting people from Shtaura to Majdaloun in the Bekaa.

His wife Zainab said that she received a telephone call from the assailants from Hamad's phone confirming the kidnapping.

Hamad was with her husband. The kidnappers informed Zainab that the hostages would only be released when an individual, who was not identified, is freed from a town near Zahle.

Details of this operation and the identity of the individual were not revealed.
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Primary category:

Hostage Taking Situation [inc. attempt, release]

Classification of conflict (primary):

Individual acts of violence

Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.

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Two men freed after brief abduction in Bekaa