BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A Lebanese man killed in a land dispute between two Syrian and Lebanese border villages was buried Monday.

Khaled Bridi, 40, was slain Sunday in the outskirts of his village Arsal, in Lebanon`s eastern Bekaa valley on the border with Syria, when gunmen from the Syrian village of Falita crossed the border and shot him dead over a dispute on a land.

The official National News Agency, quoted Arsal Mayor Bassel Hojeiri as saying 'a dispute erupted between the inhabitants of the two villages over ownership of a land.'

He said a delegation from Arsal accompanied by a Lebanese security team visited the disputed land last week 'and made sure that the land is at least 5 kilometers inside Lebanese territory.' (UPI)