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Woman wounded by stray bullet in Sidon
Date of incident:
August 5, 2017
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
1 person
Actors/Parties Involved:
Lebanese Civilians
In the Sidon Villas neighborhood, a Lebanese national identified was hit by a stray bullet, resulting of celebratory gunfire from the city’s Ain al-Hilweh camp.
Gunmen were cheering for the release of a Palestinian militant from prison, arrested in July on drug charges.
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.
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