Cri*mes rate surge | Head of village shot de*ad outside his house in eastern Deir Ezzor countryside

Crimes rate surge | Head of village shot dead in areas held by Iranian-backed militias east of Deir Ezzor

Deir Ezzor province: The head of Saalou Shamiyyah village within areas controlled by regime forcesand Iranian-backed militias in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor was shot dead directly by unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle.

According to SOHR activists, the gunmen went to the house of the victim, calling him to go out of his house and shooting him dead. The gunmen fled to an unknown destination.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 154 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 169 civilians: 31 children, 27 women, and 111 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: 11 people: seven 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.