BEIRUT: Lebanese police safely freed two Syrian nationals who were kidnapped a few days ago in east Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, a police statement said Wednesday.

The statement issued by the Internal Security Forces (ISF) said police traced the whereabouts of one of the kidnappers in the northeastern Bekaa Valley region and freed the men.

It did not say when the men were released, but added that they were taken to judicial authorities to find out the circumstances surrounding their kidnapping.

Mohammad Ayman Ammar and Nour Jamil Qadoura, said to support the uprising against the Syrian government, were snatched after they crossed the Syrian border into east Lebanon on Friday.

Gunmen in a vehicle with tinted glass windows intercepted their Jaguar in Bar Elias, east Lebanon, and grabbed them. Their driver, however, was not kidnapped.

The ISF statement said a police hunt is under way to find and arrest the kidnappers.

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel, meanwhile, said the suspects were currently being pursued in Brital, a Hezbollah stronghold just south of Baalbek.

He said the two Syrian citizens were now being debriefed by the ISF, adding that they will be handed over to the General Security and deported to Syria.