Deteriorating security in Daraa | Civilian shot dead in Om Al-Mayathen

Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have documented the killing of a person from Nasib town, after being shot by three gunmen in a shop in Om Al-Mayathen town in the eastern countryside of Daraa. The reasons behind the killing of the civilian have been known yet, while unconfirmed reports suggest that vendetta is behind this murder.

 

Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 566 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 378 persons, and they are as follows:

 

• 103 civilians, including 12 women and 11 children

 

• 179 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services

 

• 57 fighters of the faction who struck “reconciliation and settlements” deals with the regime and became in the ranks of regime’s security branches, including former commanders

 

• 19 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces

 

• 19 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.