Akkar Students Stab Teacher after Harassment Complaint

Two Lebanese students and a Syrian on Monday stabbed a teacher in the northern district of Akkar after a harassment complaint by female students, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said Abdullah M., the teacher at the Shadra technical school, informed police in the town of Mashta Hassan that Lebanese Y.D. and Z.D. and Syrian Samer A. assaulted him and then stabbed him.

He claimed that the attack took place after he confronted the three assailants for harassing the girls in the bus that he was driving, said the agency.

The two Lebanese students hail from Mashta Hammoud while the teacher hails from al-Muqaibleh.

NNA did not say how serious the teacher's injuries were.

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