Escalated violence | Three people killed in gunfire between young men in western Al-Suwaydaa countryside
In the last 48 hours, five civilians killed amid rampant security chaos that pervade in Al-Suwaydaa, south of Syria
Three young men from Mazraa town in the western countryside of Al-Suwaydaa were killed in a dispute arose between them yesterday.
According to SOHR sources, a personal dispute erupted between the young men last Sunday, May 8, leaving two young men dead and a young man seriously injured, then he died of his wounds today.
It is worth noting that Al-Suwaydaa province in southern Syria is experiencing chaos and insecurity, which has recently escalated.
On May 7, SOHR activists reported that members of an armed faction in Qanawat town surrounded the house of a young man to arrest him, where he shot them, and they shot back directly at him, killing him and setting his house on fire.
This came after the young man tried to assassinate another person, who was severely injured and transported to a hospital to receive proper medication.
The Syrian Observatory has documented 61 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 15 children, nine women and 39 men dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:
• A young lady and three men in Damascus.
• Two little boys, three 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 elder woman, young woman, a little girl, a little boy, a baby and 13 young men in Al-Suwaydaa.
• Three men and a young man in Deir Ezzor.
• A baby and a man in Aleppo.
• Three men and four children in Daraa.
• Three men and a little girl in Homs.