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Conflict Incident Report

LAF: Perpetrators of Bkaasafrin attack against Army arrested

Date of incident: 
December 7, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Military Intelligence

After a thorough pursuit and investigation into the attack carried out against an army checkpoint in the locality of Bkaasafrin in Danniyeh on 12/04/2016, which led to the martyrdom of one of a military personnel and the wounding of another, an Army Intelligence unit deployed in the region succeeded, at dawn, in the wake of an expanded raid operation, to arrest all the perpetrators of the attack... The unit also seized in the neighboring forests the military weapons used in the attack.
The arrested perpetrators and the seizures were referred to the competent authority for necessary action.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category: 
Raid
Secondary Category: 
Arrest/Detention
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Power & governance conflicts
Violent or non-violent conflicts associated with antagonisms related to internal political tensions between local and/or national groups and parties. These tensions may be encouraged by internal, regional and international parties. Such conflicts are characterized by their defiance and/or opposition to central State power and governance.