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Conflict Incident Report

Child receives stray bullet in Sahl Saadnayel

Date of incident: 
December 18, 2015
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Syrian Civilians/Refugees
ISF(internal security forces)

NNA - Child Joud Saria Sayyed Hammoud - born in 2014 of Syrian origins - has been admitted to Al-Mays hospital in Chtaura after having received a stray bullet from an unknown weapon while in his home in Sahl Saadnayel.

Security Forces immediately rushed to the scene of the incident and began their investigations to find out the shooter and commissioned a forensic doctor to check on the child. http://nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/54255/Child-receives-stray-bullet-in-...

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.