BEIRUT - Hizbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers in attacks from Lebanon on Israeli border posts on Wednesday, Hizbollah television said.

It said the Islamic Resistance, the military arm of Hizbollah, announced the capture in a statement.

And Israeli army says two soldiers are missing from Lebanon border, Israeli Channel 10 TV reported.

The Israeli army confirmed on Wednesday two of its soldiers were missing on the Lebanese border, Israel's Channel 10 Television reported.

Asked about the report, an army spokeswoman told Reuters: "We do not confirm the reports, but there is a fear they were abducted."

Lebanese security sources said Israeli aircraft retaliated by bombing a key bridge in southern Lebanon.

The Syrian-backed Hizbollah earlier fired dozens of Katyusha rockets and mortar bombs at Israeli border posts and a town, wounding four Israeli civilians, according to Israeli and Lebanese security sources.

Israeli gunners retaliated, firing salvoes of artillery shells into the outskirts of four Lebanese border villages while Israeli soldiers exchanged gunfire with guerrillas in the area.

The fighting apparently began when at least two rockets fired from south Lebanon exploded near Shlomi, an Israeli frontier town about 15 km (9 miles) east of the Mediterranean coast.

Hizbollah guerrillas also attacked Israeli posts in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms area to the east, the Lebanese security sources said.

The Hizbollah attack coincided with a major Israeli military incursion in the Gaza Strip, ordered partly in retaliation for the abduction by Palestinian guerrillas earlier this month of an Israeli soldier from a border post.