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Conflict Incident Report
Stabbing in Bir Hassan
Date of incident:
July 20, 2018
Death toll:
1 person
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Syrian Civilians/Refugees
A Syrian man was arrested and confessed to stabbing another Syrian man to death in Bir Hasan, according to a statement by the Internal Security Forces.
The stabbing was a result of a previous dispute in Idlib between the family of the perpetrator, identified as R.Kh. and born in 1996, and the family of the victim, identified as H.B. and born in 1997.
R.Kh. fled the scene of the crime, but was caught within 72 hours after a raid in Saadiyat. The perpetrator confessed to stabbing the victim six times with a knife, which the ISF later retrieved near the Kuwaiti Embassy.
Primary category:
Murder
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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