Conflict Incident Report

Four Killed in Family Dispute in Iqlim al-Kharroub's Ketermaya

Date of incident:

August 19, 2015

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Lebanese Civilians

Four people were killed Wednesday as a family dispute escalated into gunfire in the Iqlim al-Kharroub town of Ketermaya, state-run National News Agency reported.
It said a man from the Yassine family shot dead two brothers from the same family and the wife of one of them. The woman is from the Seifeddine family, NNA added.
The shooter then turned the weapon against himself and committed suicide.
The agency attributed the clash to “disputes over inheritance.”

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/187834-four-killed-in-family-dispute-...

Primary category:

Shooting

Secondary 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.

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Four Killed in Family Dispute in Iqlim al-Kharroub's Ketermaya