Security chaos in Daraa | Unidentified gunmen assassinate mayor of Nahta

Daraa governorate – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR sources say that unidentified gunmen shot dead the mayor of Nahta town today in front of his house in Nahta town in eastern Daraa countryside.

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 867 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 586 persons, categorised as follows:

• 161 civilians, including 12 women and 16 children 

• 264 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services

• 113 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

• 25 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.