Security chaos in HTS-held areas | Unknown gunmen assassinate civilian, and others hijack vehicle of rescue teams
Idlib Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that unknown gunmen shot dead a civilian on the outskirts of Salwa village, which is under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and opposition factions in Idlib countryside, near the administrative border with Aleppo province.
On the other hand, masked gunmen hijacked a vehicle of the Civil Defence carrying two members of the rescue teams on the road to Harbanoush in Idlib countryside. The gunmen later released the two members and looted the vehicle, communication devices and the two members’ possessions.
SOHR sources have also reported the missing of a girl in Atama camps in northern countryside of Idlib, but no further details have been reported.
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 735. 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
- 222 civilians, including 23 children and 22 women
- 432 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.