Security chaos in Daraa | Unknown gunmen kidnap and shoot civilian before releasing him
Daraa governorate – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:
SOHR sources say that unidentified gunmen kidnapped a young man from Bosra al-Sham in Daraa countryside, on the road to the town of Al-Sahwa, east of Daraa. The gunmen shot him injuring him in the feet before releasing him. It is worth nothing that the young man is a civilian and lives with his family in Daraa al-Mahata.
Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 820 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 533 persons, categorised as follows:
- 151 civilians, including 12 women and 16 children
- 236 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services
- 104 fighters of factions that struck “reconciliation and settlements” deals with the regime and became in the ranks of regime’s security branches, including former commanders
- 23 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces
- 24 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.