HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Unidentified attackers kidnapped and tortured a 22-year-old man on Tuesday evening near Hebron in the southern West Bank, a local official said.

Popular committee spokesman Muhammad Awad told Ma'an that Muhammad Sleibi was walking home in Beit Ummar at around 11 p.m. when assailants ambushed him.

A search party went out to look for Sleibi and found him handcuffed in the al-Buweira area west of Beit Ummar.

"Bruises on his body indicate that he was beaten brutally,” Awad said, adding that Sleibi is being treated in Hebron's government hospital.

Awad added that another man from Beit Ummar was similarly assaulted by masked assailants three days ago.