New murder in regime-held area | Daughter and her cousin kill her mother in Rif Dimashq
An elder woman in her 60s was found dead in a house in Kafr Batna district in Rif Dimashq.
According to SOHR sources, the woman was killed by her daughter and niece, who confessed that they stabbed the elder woman with several knives to death for expelling the jinn from her body.
The Syrian Observatory has documented 95 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 100 civilians: 18 children, 16 women, and 65 men, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:
Al-Suwaydaa: 27 civilians: three children, including an infant, three women, and 21 men.
Rif Dimashq: 19 civilians: Six children, four 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.