Conflict Incident Report

Man in Tripoli kills cousin

Date of incident:

March 16, 2018

Death toll:

1 person

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Internal Security Forces (ISF)

Lebanese Civilians

A man who killed a relative in the northern city of Tripoli’s Abi Samra area was arrested by the Internal Security Forces, an ISF statement reported Saturday.

The ISF identified the suspect as Lebanese M.Aa., born in 1994, who also holds Australian citizenship and was the victim’s cousin. The victim was identified as Lebanese national Hussein Mahmoud, born in 1991. M.Aa. was arrested for shooting Mahmoud in the chest and head in Abi Samra on March 16. He died of his wounds after having been taken to the hospital.

The ISF said they identified the killer, the murder weapon and the direction in which M.Aa. had fled after the shooting within three hours. M.Aa. was arrested at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri international airport the same day as the crime before he could escape the country.

The ISF said they had determined that the shooting occurred “by mistake,” but no further details were provided.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.

Source Link:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2018/Mar-17/441952-…

Primary category:

Murder

Secondary Category:

Shooting

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.

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Man in Tripoli kills cousin

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