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Conflict Incident Report

Person wounded in Baalbeck commercial market

Date of incident: 
August 3, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
1 person
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians

NNA - Unidentified persons opened fire inside Baalbeck commercial market from a Picanto vehicle at the taxi driver Housni Osman and wounded him, NNA correspondent reported on Wednesday. 
The field reporter added that Osman was transferred to a hospital in Baalbeck. 

Primary 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.