BEIRUT: Security forces arrested a Syrian national suspected of kidnapping and killing a Syrian teenager over political differences, a police statement said Wednesday.
It said the victim’s father alerted police on October 2 about the kidnapping of his 17-year-old son by unknown assailants who asked for a $3,000 ransom to release him.
Police succeeded in apprehending the culprit who confessed that to luring the victim to an isolated area near a spring in Jouret Ballout, in the Metn district, and killed him because of political differences.
After committing his crime, the suspect tried to blackmail his victim’s father for money, the statement said, adding that the victim’s body and identity papers were found near the crime scene.
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