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Conflict Incident Report

Man dies in Amshit as hit by car

Date of incident: 
July 23, 2015
Death toll: 
1 person
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Civil Defense

National News Agency correspondent on Thursday reported that citizen Ali Obeid was killed last night after an unidentified car hit him while he was on his motorcycle on Amshit highway.
Security forces rushed to the scene and started investigations, while Civil Defense members transferred the body to nearby Our Lady of the Succors hospital in Jbeil.

http://nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/47052/Man-dies-in-Amshit-as-hit-by-car

Primary category: 
Car Accident
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.