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Conflict Incident Report

Domestic worker survives attempted suicide

Date of incident: 
April 10, 2015
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
1 person
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Migrant Domestic Worker

NNA - An Ethiopian domestic worker attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself from "her" landlord's 4th floor balcony in Bsalim/al-Metn today.
She is reported under close observation in an intensive care ward, after having suffered multiple injuries due to her free fall, medics at ash-Sharq al-awsat hospital said.
Police officers are meanwhile debriefing the land lard as per causes leading to the attempted suicide.
http://nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/42797/Domestic-worker-survives-attemp...

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.