The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Security chaos | Woman kil-ls her step son in Aleppo

Aleppo province: A four years-old was killed in Aleppo city by his step mother, in cooperation with two of her children.

According to reliable SOHR sources, the child was brutally tortured before being killed, where his body showed bruises on his neck and head that led to his death.

Since early 2023, the Syrian Observatory has documented 19 murders in regime-controlled areas, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders, while motivations behind the others remained unknown. These murders left 20 civilians: Five women, 14 young and adult men and one child dead.
The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:
• Al-Suwaydaa: Three men.
• Rif Dimashq: Five men and a woman.
• Homs: One woman and a young man.
• Hama: Two men.
• Daraa: One man.
• Damascus: One woman and one man.
• Latakia: One man and two women.
• Aleppo: One child.