Escalating crime rate in regime-controlled areas | Woman and her little son killed in Latakia
SOHR sources have reported that a woman and her son were found dead in their house in Basateen Al-Rayhan area in Latakia, where the woman was laying on the floor of the bedroom, while the child was on the floor of the reception. Investigations are underway for disclosure of the circumstances of the crime.
The Syrian Observatory has documented 38 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 40 fatalities: nine women, 26 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: five murder crimes left a child and four men 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: Three murder crimes left a woman and two men dead.
- Aleppo: Two murder crimes left a child and a woman dead.
- Deir Ezzor: Two murders crime left two young men dead.