The Israel Police say they have managed to rescue a kidnapping victim and arrest five suspects in the crime at the end of a car chase in the south.
According to the police, they received a call last night reporting the kidnapping of a 22-year-old man from East Jerusalem. Police focused their search around Eilat, and managed to locate a vehicle believed to be carrying the kidnapped man in the Abu Talul Bedouin town in the Negev Desert.
Police set up roadblocks to stop the vehicle thought to be holding the man as well as another vehicle involved. The operation led to a car chase between police and the two vehicles in a dirt area near unrecognized Bedouin villages in the south, police say.
Police officers succeeded in stopping the two vehicles, one of which overturned, and in freeing the man. The kidnapping victim was beaten and held for hours in order to demand a ransom from his family, according to police.
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