107th crime in regime-held areas | Homs residents find civilian died in mysterious circumstances

Homs province: SOHR activists have monitored a new murder in regime-held areas, where residents have found the body of a man in his 50s, killed and buried in a hole in the agricultural lands in Jobar neighbourhood in Homs, and he was transported to a hospital in Karm Al-Loz neighbourhood. However, the motivations of the crime were not identified.

The victim hails from Bab Amr neighbourhood in south western of Homs, and this comes in light of the increasing crime rate and security chaos in most areas of Syria.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 107 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 115 civilians: 21 children, 20 women and 74 men, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Al-Suwaidaa: 30 civilians: three children, including an infant, three women and 24 men.
• Rif Dimashq: 21 civilians: six children, five women and ten men, including an Iraqi man.
• Homs: 11 civilians: Two little girls, two women and eight men.
• Hama: Ten civilians: an infant, three women and six men.
• Daraa: Ten civilians: four children and six men.
• Aleppo: Seven civilians: an infant and six men.
• Damascus: Four civilians: a woman and three men.
• Tartus: Seven civilians: Three women, three men and a child.
• Deir Ezzor: Six people: five men, a child and a woman.
• Al-Raqqah: Two men.
• Latakia: Four civilians: two women, a child and a man.
• Al-Quneitra: A child.