Murders in regime-held areas | woman found dead in her house in Bad Hood district in Homs

Homs province: On Friday evening, residents of Bab Hood neighbourhood in Homs found an elderly woman in her fifties who had been strangled inside her house by unknown persons after stealing a sum of money and her gold jewellery.

According to medical sources, the woman died after being beaten with a sharp tool on the head and strangled to death.

It is worth noting that areas controlled by the regime are witnessing a remarkable rise in crimes rate.

In September 2022, SOHR activists documented murders of three civilians from Talbiseh, north of Homs, Al-Haythamiyah village in Tel Kalakh city in the western countryside of Homs, and a man was found in agricultural land in Jobar district, south-west of Homs.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 114 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 122 civilians: 21 children, 22 women and 79 men, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Al-Suwaidaa: 31 civilians: three children, including an infant, three women and 25 men.

• Rif Dimashq: 23 civilians: six children, five women and 12 men, including an Iraqi man.

• Homs: 15 civilians: Two little girls, four women and nine 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: Eight people: Six men, a child and a woman.

• Al-Raqqah: Two men.

• Latakia: Four civilians: two women, a child and a man.

• Al-Quneitra: A child.