President Michel Suleiman has postponed a visit he planned to make to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks with top officials, his office announced.

The statement did not set a new date for the visit.

Hizbullah and Baalbek residents on Sunday held a funeral for the party's members Imad Ballouq and Ali al-Barzawi, who were killed in Saturday's clashes, as the army reinforced its presence in the city.

“Through the blood of our martyrs, we urge all those keen on this country's safety to protect our country from those who are tampering with its security,” said Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek, Hizbullah's top official in the Bekaa, as he led the mourners who turned out en masse for the funeral.

Hizbullah sources have denied that the party is mulling to limit the number of its fighters in Syria, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported on Sunday.

The denial came after official sources told the newspaper that Hizbullah was planning to downsize its members who are fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad's troops against the rebels.

A pharmacist was kidnapped by unknown assailants in the eastern Zahle district on Sunday morning, drawing condemnation and calls for his release, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Wissam al-Khatib was abducted as he was opening his pharmacy that lies on the main road of the town of Karak, NNA said.

Australia on Sunday insisted it provided "all appropriate assistance" to an asylum-seeker boat that sank off Indonesia, as the death toll rose to 28 people, the majority of them Lebanese.

The vessel, carrying an estimated 120 asylum-seekers from Lebanon, mainly from the town of Kabiit in Akkar, Jordan and Yemen, sank in rough seas Friday.

Three Lebanese soldiers were injured late Saturday after a shell from the Syrian side of the border landed near their post in the northern Akkar district, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said the shall hit an area in the town of al-Noura where the soldiers have a base.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Mohammed Kabbara Saturday called on concerned authorities to “hurry up” and adopt a security plan in the Bekaa city of Baalbek to protect the people against Hizbullah.

“We demand a security plan in Baalbek to protect the people against the terrorist party that conducted an attack to eradicate our people from the Bekaa,” Kabbara said in a released statement, referring to Hizbullah.

Two people were wounded in the northern city of Tripoli when unknown assailants hurled a bomb at a shop on Saturday evening.

“Two people were injured when a bomb was hurled at al-Aqqad motorbike shop in Tripoli's Miatayn street,” the state-run National News Agency reported, adding that the wounded were transferred to the city's hospitals for treatment.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati assured on Saturday that all necessary measures to contain the recent clashes in the Bekaa city of Baalbek were adopted, stressing also that the army has the powers to prevent disorder.

“We will prevent any presence of armed men in the city and we will be strict in prosecuting those involved in the incident,” Miqati said in a released statement after taking part in an emergency security meeting held at the Baabda Palace.

Lebanese officials followed up on Saturday the sinking of an asylum boat off the coast of Indonesia's main island Java, which killed at least 21 people, including 14 Lebanese.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati said after holding talks with a delegations from the relatives of the victims that the Lebanese charge d'affaires at the Lebanese embassy in Jakarta was tasked with issuing passports for all the survivors and return them to Lebanon.