The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Security chaos | Criminals ki-ll an elder in Rif Dimashq

Rif Dimashq province: SOHR activists have monitored a new murder within regime-held areas, where an elder from Saqba town in Al-Ghota Al-Sharqiyah within Rif Dimashq was killed.

According to reliable SOHR sources, a civilian in his 70s was hit by a block stone by thieves, while they were trying to rob his house, where he was taken to the hospital and he was totally unconscious before dying in the hospital. Meanwhile, the local authorities arrested the criminals.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 42 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 murder crimes left 44 fatalities: 11 women, 28 young and adult men and five children. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

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

• Latakia: Seven murder crimes left three men, four women and a child dead.

• Al-Suwaidaa: Seven murder crimes left a child, five men and a woman dead.

• Homs: Four murder crimes left a man, a woman, a young man and a child dead

• Hama: Two murder crimes left two men dead.

• Daraa: Six murder crimes left five men and a woman dead.

• Damascus: Four murder crimes left a woman and three men dead.

• Aleppo: Two murder crimes left a child and a woman dead.

• Deir Ezzor: Two murders crime left two young men dead.

• Al-Hasakah: One murder crime left one woman dead.