Beirut  - Four people were wounded in armed clashes in eastern Lebanon overnight between supporters of the ruling majority and the Hezbollah-led opposition, security sources said on Monday.

Armed men opened fire with machine guns, mortar rounds and rockets in the village of Saadnayel in the Bekaa Valley in the east of the country during the night and the tension lasted until dawn despite army intervention, the sources said.

Similar clashes had also broken out between rival factions in the capital Lebanon despite a deal reached last month in Qatar between the mainly Sunni parliamentary majority and the Shiite-led opposition that ended an 18-month political crisis in the country.

The army has moved in force to the area by Monday morning, but tension is still prevailing.

The Lebanese political crisis between the two groups led last month to clashes that almost drove the country to the brink of civil war. Around 85 people were killed in sectarian violence.

The Doha accord which was reached on May 21 led to the election of army chief Michel Suleiman as president after a six-month vacuum.

But tension is still prevailing between the anti-Syrian majority which is backed by the West and most Arab states, and the opposition, which is supported by Iran and Syria, over the line up of the new government which will be headed by Premier Fouad Seniora. (dpa)