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Suspects arrested over toxic waste dumping
Date of incident:
December 31, 2018
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
State Security
State Security arrested several people over the weekend after weeks of investigations into the illegal dumping of waste near the Baalbeck town of Taybeh.
The perpetrators had allegedly dumped what State Security investigators identified as medical waste and untreated sewage on lands between Taybeh and Baalbeck city.
Primary category:
Arrest/Detention
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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