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Conflict Incident Report

Personal dispute in Tripoli turns into exchanged shooting

Date of incident: 
September 29, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
2persons

NNA - A personal dispute in Tripoli's Qobbeh escalated into exchanged gunfire which led to the injury of two persons.
The shooters ran away and security forces elements are on his pursuit, the NNA correspondent said.

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.