Murders surge across Syria | Mutilated body of little girl found in Homs city

SOHR activists have monitored a new heinous crime in light of a series of crimes taking place in regime-held areas.

A little girl was found inside a bag dumped near Tel Al-Nasr tomb in Homs.

According to Syrian Observatory activists, the child remains unknown and has not been identified due to the deformity of her face and body and the circumstances of her murder and the identity of the perpetrators remain unknown.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 90 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2022, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders, while the motivations behind the others remained unknown. These murders left 95 civilians: 17 children, 15 women and 63 men, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Al-Suwaidaa: 24 civilians: three children, including an infant, three women and 18 men.

• Rif Dimashq: 17 civilians: five children, three women and nine men, including an elderly man.

• Hama: Ten civilians: an infant, three women and six men.

• Daraa: Nine civilians: four children and five men.

• Homs: 11 civilians: Two little girls, three women and six men.

• Damascus: Four civilians: a woman and three men.

• Tartus: Four civilians: two women and two men.