2 Tripoli Brothers Briefly Kidnapped Near Beirut Airport
Two men from the northern city of Tripoli were kidnapped while heading to Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport at dawn Sunday but they were released after a few hours.
Contact with Ramez and Rajab al-Saidi was lost at dawn Sunday after they reached the area near the airport, their brother told MTV.
The young men were heading to the airport to pick up their father, said the state-run National News Agency.
But the abductees were released around noon Sunday and headed back to their Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood in Tripoli, NNA said.
According to MTV, the men were held by Hizbullah members at a security checkpoint on the airport road.
A Turkish pilot and co-pilot were kidnapped on Aug. 9 by unidentified assailants while heading from the airport to a hotel in the Lebanese capital.
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