Two suspects arrested in south Lebanon for attempted child abduction

The Internal Security Forces (ISF) stated Tuesday they arrested two individuals, a Lebanese and a Syrian, suspected of attempting to kidnap two children in the Hasbaya district of south Lebanon.

The police, responding to information circulating on social networks, said that two brothers from the village of Fardis (Hasbaya) were the subject of an attempted abduction by unknown individuals traveling in a car with tinted windows. The reports also stated that the two children managed to escape and hide.

“Within less than 24 hours, the ISF identified the driver M.C., a 30-year-old Lebanese,” the police statement mentioned, specifying that he was arrested on March 2, in Hebbarieh (Hasbaya), in a black Hyundai car, which was immediately seized. During his interrogation, the suspect said that he had no intention of abducting the two children but had stopped near them by chance, following a verbal dispute with a 43-year-old Syrian national, A.D.H, who was with him and was arrested in Hasbaya the same day of the incident.

The children's father had called upon the ISF to identify the perpetrators of the abduction attempt.