Second cri*me today | Civilian stran*gles his wife with electric wire in Rif Dimashq

Rif Dimashq province: SOHR activists have reported that a man killed his 33 year-old wife, by strangling her with an electric wire, due to family disputes in Al-Malita neighbourhood in Al-Nabak city in Al-Qalmon AL-Gharby in Rif Dimashq, and the civilian fled to an unknown destination.

According to reliable SOHR sources, the murderer hit his wife on the head and strangled her with an electric wire before she died, while local authorities interfered to investigate the crime.

This is the second crime today, in light of the ongoing domestic violence which is prominent in Syria with lack of legalized deterrence.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 158 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 173 civilians: 32 children, 29 women, and 112 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: 33 civilians: six children, eight women, and 19 men, including an Iraqi man.

• Homs: 26 civilians: two little girls, four women, and 20 men.

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

• Daraa: 12 civilians: six 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.