Conflict Incident Report

Personal dispute behind Arsal grenade attack

Associated Timeline/Case:

Arsal Conflict (starting August 2, 2014)

Date of incident:

February 23, 2015

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

A dispute between a customer and a nargileh shop owner in the northeastern border town of Arsal was behind a midnight attack on the shop, a security source said Tuesday.

The source told The Daily Star the customer, who was not identified, lobbed a hand grenade at the shop after the owner closed the store.

No one was hurt in the blast.

The source said a brief argument had erupted earlier Monday night between the customer and the shop owner, a member of the Hujeiri family, over a delay in nargileh delivery.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Feb-24/288536-persona...

Primary category:

Dismantlement of Explosives/Demining

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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Personal dispute behind Arsal grenade attack