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Saudi freed in Lebanon after kidnapping

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid bin Abdullah Bukhari and Lebanon's caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi attend a news conference at Saudi Arabia's embassy in Beirut, Lebanon [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]

A Saudi national who had been kidnapped in Beirut on Sunday has been freed in a special operation by the Lebanese army near the Syrian border.

“An army intelligence patrol managed to free kidnapped Saudi national Mashari al-Mutairi during a special operation on the Syrian border and a number of those involved in the kidnapping were also arrested,” the Lebanese army said in a statement on Monday.

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