First crime in regime-held areas in May | Elderly woman found dead at her house in southern Al-Suwaidaa countryside

SOHR activists have reported a new murder occurred in areas controlled by Syrian regime. An elderly woman, who lives with her son in a house in Barad village in the southern countryside of Al-Suwaydaa, has been found dead in her house.

According to SOHR sources, the victim has gone missing hours before she was found murdered.

It is worth noting that regime security services have arrested the son under investigation for being accused of murdering his mother.

Syrian Observatory has documented 56 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2022, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders while motivations behind the others remained unknown. These murders left 14 children, nine women and 35 men dead.
The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

A young lady and two men in Damascus.

Two little boys, two little girls, an old man, two women and five men in Rif Dimashq.

Two men and two women in Tartus.

Four men, a baby and two ladies in Hama.

An elderly woman, a young woman, a little girl, a little boy, a baby and 11 young men in Al-Suwaidaa.

Three men and a young man in Deir Ezzor.

A baby and a man in Aleppo.

Two men and four children in Daraa.

Three men and a little girl in Homs.