A Syrian toddler was abducted Friday in the coastal Khalde area south of Beirut, Lebanese National News Agencyreported.
“The mother of four-year-old Syrian child Abed al-Katheri Ghoushou filed a report with police, saying her son disappeared at noon today from the vicinity of a Khalde building where his father works as a janitor,” NNA said.
Abdul-Kafi Ghooshu went missing while playing outside his home in Khalde around 3 p.m., Daily Star reported.
The woman and her husband received a phone call three hours later from an unknown person who claimed that he had kidnapped her son, the agency added.
The alleged captor demanded a $ 15,000 ransom to release the child, NNA said.
Naharnet quoted the agency saying that “the family cannot provide this amount of money seeing as the husband’s monthly salary is only $ 250.”
The Choueifat police station has since launched an investigation in a bid to identify the caller, NNA said.
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