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The General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces in Lebanon announced yesterday, Monday, February 28, that it had freed a Syrian woman and her two daughters from the grip of a kidnapping gang, who demanded a large ransom for their release.
The directorate said, in a statement, that it was able to arrest a gang that kidnapped a Syrian woman and her two daughters, following illegally bringing them into the country.
According to the directorate, contact was lost between the kidnapped women and their families in Syria until February 15, and on that day a message came to them informing them of the kidnapping process, and asking them for a ransom of $20,000.
The directorate said that the gang had placed the three abductees in a house owned by a Lebanese citizen in the town of Al-Kawakh, in the Hermel district.
She indicated that the Security Directorate raided the aforementioned place as soon as it received the information and was able to free the woman and her children and arrest the gang.
The Lebanese-Syrian border has witnessed an unprecedented unrest during the recent period, where attacks and kidnappings for ransom are prevalent, as Hezbollah militia controls the borders between the two countries and supervises smuggling operations.
Smuggling of goods, fuel and people is active, as the phenomenon of smuggling Syrians to Lebanon, then to Cyprus and European countries, was recently recorded, at a time when the Lebanese army recently started a campaign of prosecutions and intensified its patrols on the borders.
