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 reported that the soldier was angered because his Filipino fiancee remained in pain after treatment at Jasser’s clinic.