BEIRUT: Hospital emergency departments have been mired in violence and a dentist was killed in his clinic in a week that saw violent crime rise in Lebanon. Violence has not been limited to medical workers, with a child kidnapped from his mother and organized armed gangs running riot in various regions. The Syndicate of Hospitals in Lebanon said it fears that hospitals could
BEIRUT: A Lebanese army soldier was arrested on Tuesday over the fatal knifing of a dentist for reportedly failing to stop his fiancee’s tooth pain following treatment at his clinic. Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces said the soldier stormed into dentist Elie Jasser’s clinic at noon, stabbed him seven times and fled the scene at Ablah village in the Bekaa Valley. Local media