Security vacuum in Daraa | Unknown gunmen assassinate drug dealer affiliated with 4th Division
Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have documented the death of a civilian working in a local group affiliated to the regime-backed 4th Division, after being shot by unknown gunmen on motorcycles in front of his house in Kharab Al-Shahm village in the western countryside of Daraa.
It is worth noting that the victim, who was from Homs city, lived in Daraa countryside and worked for a group making a career of narcotics trade and manufacture. The group also smuggles drugs neighbouring countries.
Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 835 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 545 persons, categorised as follows:
- 152 civilians, including 12 women and 16 children
- 245 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services
- 106 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.