By NNN-KUNA,
Beirut : The Lebanese army and security forces have begun to deploy troops at the hotspots of Bab Al-Tabbanah and Jabal Mohsen in Tripoli, in northern Lebanon.
The move is to impose law and order in Tripoli where gunmen have been engaged in violence and gunfight since Sunday.
Earlier on Monday, the Lebanese army said it would send reinforcements to troubled areas in a bid to impose security there.
Army and security intervention came following repeated calls by political, religious and public figures to put an end to violence in northern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s Mufti Sheikh Rashid Qabbani called for more decisive and stricter action against attempts to destabilize the country.
He also sounded the alarm over “insecurity that takes place now and then in diverse Lebanese areas in a bid to intimidate citizens.”
He emphasized that an end should be put to violence and infighting in order to maintain national unity, calling for all militants in the country to be disarmed.
Six people have been killed in sectarian clashes among gunmen in Tripoli since Sunday.
The violence occurs despite a political accord which led to the election of a president and moves towards forming a government of national unity.
Gunmen traded fire between the mainly Sunni Muslim Bab Tibbaneh district and the Alawite Jabal Mohsen area. They fired machineguns, grenades and mortars, driving hundreds of civilians from the area.