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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrested 4 persons suspected of killing missing north Lebanon man

Date of incident: 
August 6, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Syrian Civilians/Refugees
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

Internal Security Forces  arrested four Syrian nationals suspected of killing a man who had been reported missing.

Kamal Saba was reported missing after he left his home in the Akkar town of Rahbeh on the 5th of August at 10 am. 

After the identification of the first suspect, the latter wa apprehended in Deir Dalloum, and confessed to killing Saba with a nife in partnership with his wife and two brothers, for material reasons.

The suspect reportedly said he threw the body in a mountainous area between the towns of Adwa and Oyoun al-Samak.

The other suspects were also arrested and confessed that they had stabbed Saba with a kitchen knife approximately 25 times.

 

The corpse was found in Oyoun al-Samak and the four suspects referred to justice. 

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
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.