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Conflict Incident Report

Army arrests a person on shooting charges

Date of incident: 
September 30, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)

NNA - Army forces arrested three persons in the regions of Tripoli's Qubba, Tyre's Burj Shemali and Southern Suburb's Cocodi, on shooting charges in previous incidents, army command said in a communiqué.
The army seized inside a 'Hyundai' car parked near the new municipal building Kalashnikov weapon, hand grenade and a quantity of light of ammunition and military materiel.

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
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.