By Jamel Adel.
Tripoli, 26 March 2014:
Kidnappers are demanding LD 600,000 for the manager of the . . .[restrict]Obari branch of the Bank of North Africa, Mohamed Al-Salheen, who was kidnapped as he was on his way home from work on Monday.
“Mohamed was coming back home after a regular day’s work around 2.00 pm when a gang kidnapped him. In the evening, they called us and demanded LD 600,000 to set him free,” the manager’s brother, Ahmed Al-Salheen, told the Libya Herald.
The kidnappers “keep calling us, repeatedly asking for LD 600,000 to set him free”, Ahmed said today.
He said the family feels helpless. “We are doing everything possible for him to rejoin the family again,” he said, but they did not have the money, and no one was helping. “The authorities are not doing their proper job and the security situation does not help,” he added..
The culprits are believed to be local. “They have local accents”, he disclosed.
A security vacuum in the south has resulted not only in numerous communal clashes but also rising crime, with a number of bank robberies and kidnappings of bank employees in Obari, Murzuk and Sebha over the past six months. [/restrict]
