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Conflict Incident Report

Driver arrested after hit and run incident

Date of incident: 
March 2, 2017
Death toll: 
1 person
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians

BEIRUT: A woman was hit and killed by a car in Halba, in Lebanon’s northern Akkar Governorate, the state-run National News Agency reported Thursday. The woman died on impact. The Internal Security Forces opened an investigation into the accident and arrested the driver of the vehicle, according to the NNA. 

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
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.