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Estonians kidnapped in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley

By REUTERS

MARCH 23, 2011 20:04

BEIRUT - Seven Estonians riding bicycles in Lebanon's Bekaa valley were kidnapped by masked gunmen on Wednesday, security sources said, a rare incident of its kind since the Lebanese civil war.

The exact circumstances of the attack in an industrial zone in eastern Lebanon remained unclear.

Security sources said masked gunmen in a black Mercedes and two white vans kidnapped the foreigners on a road between Zahle, a mostly Christian town, and Kfar Zabed, a mixed Sunni-Christian town.

The cyclists had apparently crossed into Lebanon from Syria at about 4 p.m. (1400 GMT), a source said.

The Estonian consul in Lebanon, Sami Kamouh, told Reuters he had received a phone call from the General Security in Zahle who told him they had found the papers of Estonians at the scene of the attack.

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