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Conflict Incident Report

Lebanese woman stabbed husband

Date of incident: 
December 15, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
1 person

A Mount Lebanon judge Saturday indicted a Lebanese woman accused of stabbing and wounding her husband in the abdomen during a domestic dispute, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The defendant, said to be born in 1965 and not further identified, stabbed her husband in the abdomen with a kitchen knife on the right side of his liver, the NNA said, adding that the wounds required surgery.

Primary category: 
Brawl/Dispute
Secondary Category: 
Assault
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.