Conflict Incident Report

Child killed by Gunshot in Baalbek's Maqneh

Date of incident:

November 8, 2014

Death toll:

1 person

Number of Injured:

0persons

A gunshot from an unknown source left a seven-year-old child dead in the Baalbek district town of Maqneh on Saturday.
“The child Ali Suheil al-Meqdad was playing on the roof of a building in the town when he was hit by a gunshot to the head,”.
The child was immediately rushed to the Dar al-Hikma Hospital in Baalbek where he succumbed to his wounds.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/154547-child-killed-by-gunshot-in-baa...

Primary category:

Personal Accident [inc. drowning, suicide...]

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.

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Child killed by Gunshot in Baalbek's Maqneh