Second assassination in one hour | Unknown gunmen shoot dead officer of “Military Intelligence Branch”

Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have documented the death of a lieutenant of “Military Intelligence Branch”, after being shot by unknown gunmen near Izraa city in the northern countryside of Daraa.

 

This assassination comes less than an hour after a similar assassination in east Daraa countryside, as unknown gunmen shot dead a non-commissioned officer of the “Military Intelligence Branch” in Daraa on the road between Al-Taybah and Um Al-Mayazen towns in the eastern countryside of Daraa.

 

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 831 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 542 persons, categorised as follows:

 

• 151 civilians, including 12 women and 16 children

 

• 245 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.