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Conflict Incident Report

Syrian murdered over alleged affair

Date of incident: 
August 14, 2018
Death toll: 
1 person
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Syrian Civilians/Refugees

The Internal Security Forces arrested a man and his wife in Ghazieh in connection with the murder of a Syrian national found dead in Sidon, a statement from the ISF said.

The body of a man identified as Syrian national Aa.Aa., born in 2000, had been found along the highway Tuesday, wrapped in a blanket and plastic bags. A forensic doctor ruled the cause of death to be suffocation.

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.