A Lebanese man was kidnapped on Thursday in the eastern Arsal region, on the border with Syria, Lebanese state media and a military source said, a day after two others were seized along the same frontier.
"Yehia Mohammad al-Fliti, from Arsal, was kidnapped on the Lebanese border with Syria," the NNA agency reported, without elaborating.
A military source told AFP that Syrians in military uniform carried out an incursion 50 metres (yards) into Lebanese territory and kidnapped a Lebanese man in Khirbet Daoud, near Arsal.
Earlier, scores of residents in the town of Abboudiyeh, on Lebanon's northern border, blocked off a road to Syria to protest the kidnapping of two Lebanese men on Wednesday, an AFP correspondent said.
The men were "kidnapped by five armed men who entered into Lebanon from across the Syrian border," according to NNA.
One of the men's relatives, Sohayb al-Rashid, said they were kidnapped in Abboudiyeh as they were working on the land.
Initial reports had suggested they were detained at the northern border crossing.
Rashid told AFP the residents of Abboudiyeh "will continue protesting until the two men are set free. And if they are not set free soon, we will escalate our protests." He did not elaborate.
"Contacts are being established with the Syrian side to get the two set free," Rashid added.
Protesters pitched a tent 700 metres (yards) from the Abboudiyeh border crossing, which links north Lebanon to Homs in central Syria.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Syrian National Council accused the Syrian regime of "escalating its breaches of the Lebanese borders (and of) increasing its armed attacks targeting Lebanese citizens and Syrian refugees."
The SNC also accused the Syrian regime of "kidnapping Syrian wounded patients from hospitals" in northern Lebanon, while also accusing "the regime's mercenaries of setting up checkpoints inside Lebanese territory."
The statement called for "people kidnapped on Lebanese territory by mercenaries of the Syrian regime to be set free."
Also on Wednesday, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati travelled to Turkey to follow up on the case of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims kidnapped in Syria on 22 May. No one has so far claimed responsibility for their abduction.
The Syrian regime dominated Lebanese politics for almost 30 years, until it was forced out in 2005, following the assassination of Lebanese former prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
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