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Conflict Incident Report

Personal dispute in Hay El Shiqan-Baalbeck

Date of incident: 
May 31, 2015
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)

On 31 May 15, a personal dispute between two families escalated into shooting in Hay El Cherwaneh-Baalbeck and led to the intervention of the LAF whom dispersed the crowd, also went in pursuit of the people involved in the dispute. One person was reported killed.
http://nna-leb.gov.lb/ar/show-news/161383/

Primary category: 
Brawl/Dispute
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.