A number of gunmen on Wednesday attacked Al-Yasariya television building in Gallery Semaan area in southern Beirut and kidnapped two Syrian nationals, New TV reported.

New TV identified the abductees as Ahmad al-Haffar and Mohammad Diab but did not report who kidnapped the men.

Members of the Moqdad family said on Wednesday that its “military wing” abducted “more than 20 Free Syrian Army members” and a Turkish national.

The kidnapping followed the abduction of a Moqdad family member in Syria. The FSA identified the abductee as a Hezbollah member, but the Shiite party denied the charges.

Later on Wednesday, Syrians were kidnapped across Lebanon following reports that a number of the Lebanese Shiites abducted in Syria had been killed.

-NOW Lebanon