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March 20, 2012

The Daily Star - Woman in her 80s victim of sexual assault, March 20, 2012


BEIRUT: A woman in her 80s was the victim of sexual assault, the National News Agency reported Monday.
The NNA said that residents of the Burj al-Shemali Palestinian refugee camp discovered a woman, 81, who had been beaten and was the victim of a sexual assault, lying in a nearby orchard.
Palestinian security personnel from the Armed Struggle faction in the camp investigated the incident and detained a 30-year-old man and turned him over to the Lebanese Army, the NNA said.
Relatives of the woman, who was taken to hospital in a coma, staged a short protest upon hearing of the incident.  

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