Increasing rate of crimes | Residents find young man kil-led in regime-held areas

Hama province: residents found the body of an 18 year-old young man was found inside a room in the agricultural lands northern of Maarads town in north eastern Hama countryside within regime-held areas. However, the identities and motivations of the perpetrators remain unknown.

This comes in light of the escalation of crime rates in regime-held areas.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 153 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 168 civilians: 31 children, 27 women, and 110 young and adult men, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Al-Suwaydaa: 34 civilians: four children, including an infant, three women, and 27 men.

• Rif Dimashq: 31 civilians: six children, six women, and 19 men, including an Iraqi man.

• Homs: 25 civilians: two little girls, four women, and 19 men.

• Hama: 18 civilians: an infant, two children, four women, and 11 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.