Gunmen kidnap schoolboy in Lebanese capital
The Daily Star
22
Apr
2013
Gunmen kidnapped Wednesday a 12-year-old student in front of his home in Ramlet al-Baida, Beirut, security sources told The Daily Star. The sources said Mohammad Nibal Awada was waiting for his school bus early at 7 a.m. when four unidentified gunmen pulled up in a Nissan Sunny with tinted windows and snatched him. The kidnappers fired one shot in the air, apparently to cover their escape, and headed toward south Lebanon, the sources said. The boy’s father, Nibal, is a wealthy businessman who owns two dressmaker factories in Lebanon. Lebanon has been struck by a series of kidnap-for-ransom cases.
