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Conflict Incident Report

Lebanon health inspectors shut Pizza Hut warehouse

Date of incident: 
May 2, 2017
Death toll: 
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Number of Injured: 
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Health inspectors sealed with red wax a warehouse of a pizza restaurant, state media reported.

The National News Agency said that the health inspectors confiscated in the warehouse spoiled and expired food.

Local channel MTV said that warehouse, in Jounieh, north of Beirut, belongs to the renowned chain Pizza Hut.

The ministry has been pursuing food safety violators since 2015.

Hundreds of shops have been warned, closed or forced to adopt stricter measures as part of the campaign.

Primary category: 
Raid
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.