Dispute over fire logs | Man killed in Wadi Bardi area in Rif Dimashq

Rif Dimashq province: A civilian in Kfir Al-Zayt in Wadi Bardi area in the western countryside of Damascus was killed by a stray bullet fired in armed clashes between two people over the sharing of fire logs.

This comes in light of the rampant security chaos and widespread arms proliferation in areas controlled by regime forces.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 22 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2023, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders, while motivations behind the others remained unknown. These murders left 23 civilians: Six women, 15 young and adult men and two children, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Rif Dimashq: Seven murder crimes left a woman, six men and a child dead

• Latakia: Three murder crimes left a man and two women dead.

• Al-Suwaydaa: Three murder crimes left three men dead.

• Homs: Two murder crimes left a woman and a young man dead.

• Hama: Two murder crimes left two men dead.

• Daraa: Two murder crimes left a man and a woman dead.

• Damascus: Two murder crimes left a woman and a man dead.

• Aleppo: One murder crime left a child dead.