Escalation of crime rate | Eight murders left eight people kil-led since beginning of 2023
Since the beginning of 2023, regime-held areas have experienced an alarming escalation of crime rates, in light of the failure of regime security services of the Syrian regime to put an end to the chaos and rampant security chaos that prevail across Syrian provinces which are under the control of regime forces.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) documented eight murder crimes that left eight civilians dead: two women and six men and young men.
The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:
On January 1: Residents found the body of an 18 year-old young man killed in mysterious circumstances, and his body dumped in Sahl Madaya area in Al-Qalmon Al-Gharby in Rif Dimashq. However, the identity of the murderers were not been identified.
On January 2: Residents found the body of a woman killed in mysterious circumstances, with her body dumped in an Arabic well in the area between Shain town and Jab Al-Bostan village in Homs countryside, after she went missing nearly two months ago, while local authorities interfered to expose the details of the crime.
On January 3: A 23 years-old young man from Namra village in eastern Al-Suwaydaa countryside died affected by wounds sustained by a gunshot from an unidentified source, where he was taken to Al-Shahba hospital in Al-Suwaydaa countryside and died there.
On January 6: A young man was directly shot dead, due to disputes between him and another person in Al-Yadoda town in western Daraa countryside, escalating the situation to armed clashes and the house of the shooter was set on fire before he fled to an unknown destination, amid tension in the region.
On January 7: The headmaster of a school in Al-Qusour neighbourhood of Hama city died of injuries he sustained yesterday after being stabbed with a sharp tool by a student of the same school, a child under the age of 18. The school principal was stabbed with more than one stab wound to the abdomen and was taken to the hospital, then he died of his injuries.
On January 9: A young man was shot dead directly by a person during a fight with gunmen on a Toyota Hilux near Al-Bouarka bridge in Al-Suwaydaa city.
On January 12: A woman in her 60s was stabbed by a sharp object in her body by two girls inside her house in (Al-Qadam – Dahil) area in Damascus, after her money and jewelry were stolen. Meanwhile, local authorities arrested them.
On January 13: A man in his 30s was stabbed to death with a sharp object by his uncle inside his house in Al-Husseiniyah town in Rif Dimashq, due to disputes over a cellular phone, where local authorities arrested the uncle.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) documented eight murder crimes that left eight civilians dead: two women and six men and young men.
The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:
• Al-Suwaydaa: Two men.
• Rif Dimashq: One man and one young man.
• Homs: One woman
• Hama: One man.
• Daraa: One man.
• Damascus: One woman.