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Conflict Incident Report

Child killed by Gunshot in Baalbek's Maqneh

Date of incident: 
November 8, 2014
Death toll: 
1 person
Number of Injured: 
0persons

A gunshot from an unknown source left a seven-year-old child dead in the Baalbek district town of Maqneh on Saturday.
“The child Ali Suheil al-Meqdad was playing on the roof of a building in the town when he was hit by a gunshot to the head,”.
The child was immediately rushed to the Dar al-Hikma Hospital in Baalbek where he succumbed to his wounds.

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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.