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Baby wounded mistakenly in Britel

Date of incident: 
April 9, 2015
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
2persons

A mother and her 8-month-old son were taken to Dar al-Amal Hospital overnight after suffering gunshot wounds as they were caught in the crossfire of a shooting in Brital, some 10 kilometers south of the eastern city of Baalbek, a security source said Thursday.

The source told The Daily Star the child, Qassem Zeaiter, was in stable condition Thursday after he was hospitalized for a gunshot wound to the head.

The bullet had struck the baby before he rested his head on his mother’s shoulder. The mother was also doing well after surgery to remove the bullet.

The father, policeman Mohammad Zeaiter happened to be passing along the Brital neighborhood of Mahmoudieh when the shooting took place. Gunfire was exchanged between two outlaws, with one of them identified as a member of the Tleiss clan.

The officer was unscathed.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Apr-09/293852-mother-...

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.
Classification of conflict(secondary):
Other
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