Security vacuum | Young man found dead in western Daraa, while the former head of commercial chamber survives assassination attempt
Daraa province: SOHR activists have reported that a civilian was injured today, after he was shot by unknown gunmen in Tariq al-Sadd neighborhood in Daraa city.
It is worth noting that the wounded man was the former head of the commercial chamber and a member of the Reform Commission.
On the other hand, residents found a dead young man near al-Shamry area on the road between al-Muzayrib and Masakin Jilen towns in the western Daraa countryside. According to SOHR sources, the young man was from Saisoun village in al-Shajara district in al-Yarmouk basin in western of Daraa, and he was kidnapped near Sahm al-Golan dam three days ago, while he was in a car with another person.
These developments came after the new reconciliation deals had been struck and individual weapons had been confiscated in most of Daraa province.
Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 1,198 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 856 persons, categorised as follows:
- 259 civilians, including 14 women and 24 children
- 389 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services
- 150 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
- 27 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces
- 33 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.