Several men set a Lebanese woman free in the outskirts of the eastern town of Forzol shortly after abducting her and contacting her husband for ransom, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

NNA said Fadi Fathallah received a phone call from his wife Mary Abdullah, 43, informing him that her kidnappers left her there after her car got stuck in mud, and escaped to an unknown location.

Three prisoners were hospitalized in the eastern city of Zahle for self-harm with sharp objects, the state-run National News Agency reported on Friday.

NNA said the three inmates, who were jailed on drug charges in the Zahle prison, were transferred to the Justice Palace jail after a guard heard them hitting on the wall on Thursday night .

The eastern city of Zahle is set to hold on Thursday a general strike to protest the unknown fate of Fouad Daoud, who was kidnapped last week by unknown assailants.

A meeting held on Tuesday at the Bishopric of Our Lady of Deliverance in Zahle called for the general strike and for a sit-in near the city's Grand Serail.

Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi revealed that the ministry is placing the finishing touches to the draft project to form the independent national body to uncover the fate of Lebanese missing persons, reported the daily An Nahar on Wednesday.

He told the daily that the project should be handed over to cabinet before the end of the week after taking into consideration the remarks of the state’s Shura council.

Two people were killed on Friday in a family dispute in the town of Saida near the city of Zahle in the Bekaa.

The ongoing clash broke out between the Bedouin families of Au Jabal and al-Loues.

Two men raped a 32-year-old Lebanese woman in the eastern city of Zahle after assaulting her male companion and stealing LL1.5 million from them, the National News Agency reported Thursday.

NNA said that four men in a BMW with tinted windows intercepted the victims identified with their initials as K.T., 32, and J.D., who were in their Toyota on the Zahle highway, at around 1:30 am.

Six people were wounded on Friday in two separate traffic accidents in Zahleh, reported the National News Agency on Saturday.

Two people were wounded in the first accident, which took place at the Zahleh Boulevard when a Mercedes crashed into a red Golf Volkswagen causing it to overturn on the road and resulting in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

Security forces arrested on Sunday a man after he pointed his gun at the convoy of MP Elie Marouni near the Phalange party offices in the eastern city of Zahle, the National News Agency reported.

NNA later reported that the man, Dr. Pierre Hilal, was in a white Honda when he pointed the gun at the convoy after it reached the party’s offices near the Central Bank. The security forces immediately dispatched patrols to the area and arrested the assailant, NNA added.

The security forces succeeded on Tuesday in releasing the two Syrian teenagers who were kidnapped on Monday, reported the National News Agency.

They were released after the kidnappers received $1 million in ransom, reported Voice of Lebanon radio.

Two Syrian teenagers were kidnapped from their home in the area of Karak near the eastern city of Zahle at dawn Monday, their mother claimed.

Jumana Izzeddine, a Syrian national, told security forces that several armed men broke into her house and kidnapped her sons Baraa, 16 and 14-year-old Ali.