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Conflict Incident Report

500 electric fans stolen in armed robbery

Date of incident: 
July 7, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians

A delivery man in east Lebanon was robbed with assailants reportedly making off with 500 electric fans, a security source told The Daily Star. A suspect called Ibrahim al-Dahab’s electronics store, asking if 500 fans could be delivered to Baalbeck. The fans were sent with a delivery man in a pickup truck, however he was reportedly held up at gunpoint after a car of armed suspects blocked the road.

The suspects then took the driver some distance from the truck, threatening to kill him if he didn’t comply, while they looted the fans. The truck was left on a main road near the Britel exit, and the suspects escaped to an unknown location.

“The security forces are monitoring the phone number in order to identify the suspects,” the source said.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category: 
Robbery/Trespassing
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.