President Michel Suleiman has postponed a visit he planned to make to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks with top officials, his office announced.

The statement did not set a new date for the visit.

It said Suleiman followed up the security situation in the eastern city of Baalbek and the issue of Lebanese asylum-seekers whose boat sank off Indonesia on Friday.

The president was briefed on the measures taken by the authorities to deal with the two issues, the Baabda palace statement added.

The police chief in the Agrabinta area of Indonesia’s Java, where the boat went down, told Agence France Presse on Sunday that the death toll from Friday’s accident was now 28, including multiple children — with many more passengers unaccounted for.

It is not clear whether all of the dead were Lebanese. [Link]