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Conflict Incident Report

Hit and run driver arrested in Nabatieh

Date of incident: 
July 18, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

A man suspected of committing a hit-and-run on a highway near the southern town of Kfar Roummane was arrested, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The unidentified suspect ran over a Bengali man, S.Kh., and immediately drove away, the NNA reported. However, a third person followed the suspect until they arrived at a checkpoint near the city of Nabatieh, where that person informed security forces of what had happened. They proceeded to arrest the suspect, the NNA said.

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.