Weapon and chaos widespread in regime areas | Man kills his brother in Daraa

Daraa province: SOHR activists have documented the death of a civilian affected by the wounds he sustained when he was shot a few days ago in Nassib town in Daraa countryside.

According to SOHR local sources, the victim had opened fire on the house of his relatives while he was on drugs, meanwhile his brother tried to stop him by shooting and injuring him severely and he was transported to the hospital.

These developments come in light of the ongoing security chaos in Daraa city, amid widespread of weapons and drugs among civilians.

Since early January, the number of attacks in Daraa province has risen to 26, which left 24 people killed: 15 civilians, seven regime-backed combatants, and an individual with settled status.
Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 1,322 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 968 persons, categorised as follows:
• Four local gunmen of anti-reconciliation groups.
• 318 civilians, including 18 women and 26 children
• 417 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services.
• 161 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.
• 31 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces.
• 37 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.