The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Murder | Uncertainty surrounds the death of civilian near Syria border with Iskenderun region

Idlib Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: A civilian was found dead today near Al-Dana town near the Syria border with Iskenderun region in Idlib countryside with marks of gun shots on his body. Uncertainty surrounded the death of the victim whose body was found after he left the sports club he owned.

 

As more fatalities were documented, the number of people who have been killed in the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia since the 26th of April 2018, the start date of the security chaos to be escalated in these provinces, rose to 720. They were assassinated by bomb attacks, IED detonations, gunfire, abductions and then killing and throwing the bodies in remote areas. The fatalities were distributed as follows:

 

  • A fighter in Turkistan Islamic Party

 

  • The wife of an Uzbek commander and another child was with her

 

  • The attorney-general of the Ministry of Justice of the Salvation Government

 

  • 215 civilians, including 23 children and 21 women

 

  • 424 fighters of Syrian nationality belong to Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, al-Sham Corps, the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Izza, and other factions operating in Idlib

 

  • 79 fighters of Somali, Uzbek, Asian, Gulf, Jordanian, Turkish and Caucasian nationalities.

 

Meanwhile, the assassination attempts have injured tens of people with varying severity.