Lebanese police arrested the gang that kidnapped a 14-year-old outside his home in Beirut, Interior Minister Ziad Baroud said Thursday, dpa reported.
Baroud told journalists that security forces raided a house in the area Aley, 30 kilometres east of Beirut, and found Amin Khansa with one of the kidnappers.
Police identified the kidnappers as Abdel Nasser Hassan al-Moqdad, Khaled Assaad Shaikho, Ahmad Ali al-Ahmad and Ibrahim Ali al-Ahmad. They were captured and transferred to the Police Directorate General for questioning.
Khansa has been reunited with his family. His father, a businessman, said the gang had demanded 1.5 million dollars for his son's release.