Cri-mes surge in regime-held areas | Father be-ats daughter to de-ath in Latakia countryside

Latakia province: A 17-year-old girl died after being brutally beaten by her father at Beit Rimi farm in Al-Bahluliyah district, north-east of Latakia, in the regime-controlled areas. The father was arrested, while the motives behind the crime remained unknown.

This comes in light of the rising crime rate in regime-held areas.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 145 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 159 civilians: 30 children, 26 women, and 103 young and adult men, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Al-Suwaydaa: 33 civilians: four children, including an infant, three women, and 26 men.

• Rif Dimashq: 28 civilians: six children, five women, and 17 men, including an Iraqi man.

• Homs: 22 civilians: two little girls, four women, and 16 men.

• Hama: 16 civilians: an infant, a child, four women, and ten men.

• Daraa: 11 civilians: five children and six men.

• Deir Ezzor: Ten people: six men, a child, and three women.

• Aleppo: Eight civilians: an infant and seven men.

• Tartus: 11 civilians: four women, four men, and three children.

• Damascus: Eight civilians: a woman, six men and a child.

• Latakia: Eight civilians: two women, four children, and two men.

• Al-Raqqah: Two men.

• Idlib: A man.

• Al-Quneitra: A child.