Children fighting | Child stabbed to death by another boy at football stadium in Rif Dimashq

A fight with cold weapons among boys erupted at a football stadium in Al-Janayen neighbourhood of Jaramana city in Rif Dimashq, leaving a 15-year-old child from Deir Ezzor dead after being stabbed with a sharp tool in the neck. The child died in a hospital in the capital, Damascus.

One of the perpetrators was arrested by security authorities, while the other fled to an unknown area.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 92 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 97 civilians: 18 children, 15 women and 63 men, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

Al-Suwaidaa: 25 civilians: three children, including an infant, three women and 19 men.

Rif Dimashq: 18 civilians: Six children, three women and nine men, including an elderly man.

Homs: 11 civilians: Two little girls, two women and seven men.

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

Daraa: Nine civilians: four children and five men.

Aleppo: Seven civilians: an infant and six men.

Damascus: Four civilians: a woman and three men.

Tartus: Four civilians: two women and two men.

Deir Ezzor: Four men.

Al-Raqqah: Two men.

Latakia: Two civilians: a woman and a man.

Al-Quneitra: A child.