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Conflict Incident Report
3 Hurt as Residents Clash with Srar Garbage Dump Employees
Three people were injured Sunday in a clash between residents and employees of the controversial Srar garbage dump in the northern district of Akkar.
State-run National News Agency identified the wounded as Osama Raad, Abdul Karim al-Mill and Ahmed Fadel.
It said the confrontation involved residents and bulldozer drivers.
“The residents have urged security forces to intervene,” the agency added.
Meanwhile, the Akkar is Not a Dump campaign said on its Facebook page that “the thugs of Khaldoun al-Yassine al-Merehbi opened fire from their assault rifles at residents who sought to prevent the bulldozers from carrying on with excavation works.”
It also said that residents from the area blocked the al-Abboudiyeh road “in protest at the acts of thuggery that are being committed by Khaldoun al-Yassine al-Merehbi and his thugs.”
The campaign noted that “residents are still being targeted by gunfire.”