The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Horrifying crime | Unidentified individuals set fire on the body of girl after strangling her to death and breaking her hands and legs

Syrian Observatory activists have monitored growing popular anger in the regime-controlled area of Masyaf in the western countryside of Hama over a horrifying crime took place in the area yesterday.

 

The residents have found the body of a girl under the age of 18 form Deir Saleeb village, after being kidnapped and killed by unknown individuals who also broke her hands and legs.

 

According to SOHR sources, the perpetrators, whose identities remained unknown, took the body of the girl to an abandoned house near the village and set fire on it. The crime has triggered popular anger and furious reaction throughout Syria, where some comments on social media read “these are neither human nor animals, even animals never do that – such criminality beats ISIS’ – Where is the state?! Where is security?! How can we live safely with the daily kidnappings and murders?!”