Bank Manager Kidnapped in Bekaa
Unknown assailants kidnapped at dawn Monday the manager of a bank in the eastern Bekaa Valley in an apparent kidnap for ransom operation, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The manager of a-Mawarid bank's Chtaura branch, Mohammed Abou Jakh, was abducted at gunpoint by the assailants who were riding a black four-wheeler near the West Bekaa town of al-Rawda, it said.
The kidnappers left Jakh's Toyota behind, NNA added.
His kidnapping came less than 24 hours after Lebanese national Nazih Zakaria al-Hussein was abducted in the northern city of Tripoli.
Al-Hussein disappeared after leaving his workplace at the Tripoli Plaza company carrying with him 8 million Lebanese pounds.
On Friday, security forces arrested the ringleader of a gang that had kidnapped a child from the town of Amchit near Jbeil, north of Beirut. Authorities also managed to recover a $50,000 ransom that had been paid to secure the release of the boy.
The child's kidnappers have been identified as Lebanese and Syrian residents of the northern border region of Wadi Khaled.
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