A car bomb has exploded near a Lebanese army checkpoint near the Syrian border, killing three soldiers, reports say.
Several more soldiers were reported wounded in the blast, believed to be a suicide attack, on the outskirts of the town of Arsal.
Tensions have been high in the area since the Syrian army captured the strategic town of Yabroud a few miles over the border a fortnight ago.
Syrian forces are now threatening rebel supply routes from eastern Lebanon.
Lebanon's state news agency reported hours earlier that the Syrian army had seized two border villages from the rebels.
Unconfirmed reports suggested a Sunni Muslim militant group was behind the Arsal bombing.
Some Sunni groups have accused Lebanese soldiers of being close to the Shia militant group Hezbollah, which has been heavily involved in the fighting against the rebels in western Syria.
President Bashar al-Assad's government launched an offensive in November 2013 to push rebel fighters out of the mountainous border area.
During the bombardment of Yabroud, much of the town's population of 40,000 fled into Lebanon.
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