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Conflict Incident Report

Citizen wounded in shooting in Tripoli

Associated Timeline/Case: 
Tripoli Clashes (starting June 20, 2014)
Date of incident: 
September 9, 2014
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
1 person
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)
Armed militants

Citizen Fawaz Bazzi received a gunshot in his leg as unidentified persons riding a motorcycle fired in his direction on Tripoli-Akkar road in Tebbeneh. The wounded was transferred to a nearby hospital while security forces rushed to the scene of the shooting and opened an investigation into the incident. http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/32896/Citizen-wounded-in-shooting...

Primary category: 
Shooting
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.