President Michel Suleiman urged the Syrian authorities on Thursday to release the two Lebanese farmers who were kidnapped a day earlier in the border region of al-Abboudiyeh as the Syrian army abducted another citizen later on Thursday. The Syrian army kidnapped Yehya Mohammed Fleiti in the border town of Arsal on Thursday afternoon.

“The rise in the rate of kidnappings and killings along the Lebanese-Syrian border is rejected,” Suleiman said.

He urged the Lebanese and Syrian authorities to carry out the necessary investigations regarding the issue to “halt any recurrence.” [Naharnet]