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Conflict Incident Report

Unknown assailants shoot hospital manager's house in Baalbeck

Date of incident: 
December 23, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons

Unknown men overnight shot at the house of a hospital manager in the Baalbeck area of Ras al-Ain, a security source told The Daily Star.

The house belongs to Ali Rakan Aalam, born in 1985, who manages the Amal Hospital in Baalbeck.

Aalam’s house was reportedly hit with several bullets.

Aalam did not file a formal complaint at the local ISF office, instead, the crime was recorded by an ISF patrol, the source said.

Preliminary investigations revealed that no cameras had recorded the incident.

Primary 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.