Conflict Incident Report

Assailants Torch Cafe in Tyre

Date of incident:

September 20, 2015

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Lebanese Civilians

Armed militants

Unknown assailants torched a cafe in Tyre but reports said only material damages were reported, the state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday.
Al-Halabi cafe was set on fire at dawn, and residents of the area rushed to extinguish it before the fire expanded further, NNA said.
The cafe's owner, Jamal al-Halabi, filed a complaint at Tyre's police station against a man whom he claims was the assailant.
He claimed that the aggressor had shot his son in the leg a week earlier after a personal dispute erupted between the two.
Investigations were opened in the case.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/190181-assailants-torch-cafe-in-tyre

Primary category:

Assault

Secondary Category:

Fire

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.

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Assailants Torch Cafe in Tyre