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Conflict Incident Report

Amioun municipality guard wounded while pursuing two suspects

Date of incident: 
December 31, 2014
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
1 person

NNA field reporter in Koura said that the guard of Amioun municipality, Rabih Jalil Gerges, was wounded during night as he was pursuing two suspected individuals by a fire shot.
Gerges was transferred to Al Burji hospital for treatment and his condition was stable.
The gendarmes of Amioun probed the case and caught one of the suspects who has been discovered as belonging to a robbery gang.
http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/38567/Amioun-municipality-guard-w...

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.