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| Title | Actors/Parties Involved | Description | Date of incident | Death toll | Number of Injured | Sources of Conflict | Security Incident Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two firefighters killed in Mar Elias blaze | Lebanese Civilians |
on 28 Apr 15, the bodies of two firefighters from Beirut's Civil Defense, who had gone missing in a fire in Beirut, were found. The firefighters were dousing the blaze at a printing house and a depot that lie 200 meters underground in Beirut's Mar Elias street on the night of 27th of April when they went missing. |
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | 2persons | 0persons | Fire | |
| Fire erupted in an underground printing house - Mar Elias–Beirut |
On 27 Apr 15, at 2015hrs, a 10-story building was evacuated in Mar Elias –Beirut after a major blaze erupted in an underground printing house and depot. |
Monday, April 27, 2015 | 0persons | 0persons | Fire | ||
| Four Soviet diplomats were abducted in Mar Elias and in the Cola area. Three were released and one was killed |
September 30, 1985: Soviet diplomats Valery Mirikov, Oleg Spirin, and Arkadi Katkov, and the Soviet embassy physician, Nikolai Sversky, were abducted in Mar Elias and in the Cola area, both in West Beirut. Katkov’s body was found close to the Cité Sportive in West Beirut on October 2, 1985. On October 30, 1985, the three other victims were released in Corniche el Mazra’a |
Monday, September 30, 1985 to Wednesday, October 30, 1985 | 1 person | 0persons | Hostage Taking Situation [inc. attempt, release], Murder |