This file photo shows Lebanon's Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi speaking during a press conference as he announces final results for some districts in Lebanon's parliamentary elections at the Interior MinistryInterior Ministry in Beirut on May 16, 2022. On Monday, Lebanese caretaker Minister Bassam Mawlawi said a Saudi Arabian citizen was kidnapped on Sunday in Lebanon's capital Beirut.
In a tweet, Mawlawi said Lebanon will work on liberating any citizens who are exposed to any harm on Lebanese soil. What happened affects Lebanon's relationship with its brothers, and the perpetrators will be treated harshly, he said.
The Saudi man, who was kidnapped from a neighborhood close to the airport road in Beirut, Al Jadeed TV reported.
The man works for Saudi Airlines in Beirut and the kidnappers demanding a ransom of 400,000 U.S. dollars for his release in a phone call from the southern suburbs of Beirut, news outlet L'Orient Today reported in the evening, quoting the Saudi newspaper Okaz.
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The Saudi embassy in Lebanon today said it had received a report from the family of a citizen that they lost contact with him. The embassy had been told not to go out to the streets, a source told The Associated Press.