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Antoine Sfeir Released One Day after Abdcution

Municipal council member of the town of Dekwaneh Antoine Sfeir, has been freed on Saturday after he was kidnapped a day earlier, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Sfeir was abducted in Dekweneh by a man from the Dandash family and has been taken to the Bekaa town of Hermel.

The abductor set him free after settling “personal financial matters,” NNA said.

Sfeir was released and has headed to the eastern city of Zahle.

NNA later said that he has given his testimony to the ISF Information Branch in Zahle.


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