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Conflict Incident Report

Arsonists target Baalbeck waste sorting plant

Date of incident: 
September 26, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons

Unidentified arsonists set a waste sorting plant in east Lebanon on fire overnight Saturday, causing $1 million worth of damage and prompting local authority figures to strongly denounce the incident.

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.