The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Seeking money of expatriate | Women killed by young men in Damascus countryside

A new crime added to the escalating crimes record in the Syrian regime-held areas amid the ongoing living and economic crises and absence of security supervision that is accompanied by chaos.
A man has killed a fifty-year-old woman inside her house after stabbing her with a sharp tool in her neck to loot the transaction she received form her expatriate sons outside Syria.
The accident details dated back when she asked a young man to help her in buying bread in front of a bakery in Tal City, and deliver it to her house. In their way home, the lady told him that she has three sons abroad who send her monthly transaction.
Few days later, the lady asked the young man and his friend to help her in transferring some staff to her house, but the perpetrator has suffocated her but she wasn’t killed. Then he stabbed her dead in her neck and robbed all her money and some of the house furniture. The criminal was later arrested in one of the farms in al-Tal city and Manein town in Damascus countryside.
On Oct. 23, SOHR sources reported that a girl was found dead and dumped in the orchards of Ain al-Hour area in Sarghaya district in Rif Dimashq, on the Syria-Lebanon border. After investigation, security services arrested a young man who had frequented to the place where the incident took place. The young man acknowledged of strangling the girl to death using a scarf. The man justified his crime by revenging the girl who “caused problems to the man with his family a few years ago”, as he described. It was found out later that the man was wanted by security service for “having drugs”.