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Conflict Incident Report

ISF founds body of murdered taxi driver in Faour

Date of incident: 
June 9, 2018
Death toll: 
1 person
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Syrian Civilians/Refugees

The Internal Security Forces arrested two men suspected of murdering a taxi driver in the Bekaa region last week, a statement from the agency's media office said..
On June 7, the parents of Syrian national Abdullah Nouh al-Mohammad, born in 1984, filed a missing persons report at the ISF office in the town of Riyaq. They said they had lost contact with Mohammad, who worked as a taxi driver, after he left his house in Faour one morning.
The ISF found his body two days later in a house in Faour. His assailants had reportedly hit his head and then strangled him. His car, a Mercedes, was missing.

Primary category: 
Murder
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.