BEIRUT: Two Arsal residents were abducted Tuesday when a passenger van they were riding in was ambushed by militants in northeast Lebanon, a security source said.
The source said that unidentified militants driving two SUVs stopped a passenger van in the Baalbek town of Nabi Othman, where they kidnapped two passengers, identified as Ahmad Hussein Kronbi and Amer Kronbi.
The militants fired shots in to the air in order to secure safe passage for their escape and successfully fled towards the town of Halbata, 12 km northeast of Baalbek.
According to the source, Tuesday’s abduction was a retaliatory kidnapping carried out one day after a Halbata resident from the Saifeddine family was snatched in Arsal.
The source said that there was no clear link between the passengers who were taken captive Tuesday and the kidnappers of the Halbata resident.
“The only link is that the two passengers were from Arsal, which is where the Halbata resident was kidnapped a day earlier,” he said.
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