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Conflict Incident Report

Army officer found hanged at east Lebanon home

Date of incident: 
July 19, 2015
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians

An Army officer was found hanged Sunday at his house in a village in the Bekaa Valley, a security source told The Daily Star.
The source said that a first sergeant major, identified by his initials T. A., was found hanged with a rope at his own house in the eastern village of Al-Khodor.
Preliminary investigations showed it was suicide, the source explained.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Jul-19/307331-army-of...

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.