In five days | Two women among seven people kil*led in murders in regime-held areas

SOHR activists have documented seven murders within regime-held areas in less than a week.

The details are as follows:

• On March 10: A woman from Deir Ezzor city and living in Damascus was killed by her husband, who suffers a psychological illness, where she was stabbed several times in her body and head, after she was tortured along with her children before she died.

• On March 12: A civilian from Al-Raqqah shot his wife dead due to family quarrels in Al-Kanisat village in Ain Al-Bayda district within regime-held area in Latakia countryside.

• On March 14: Residents have found the body of a 40-year-old man, who was shot dead in his belly, in Al-Jarah roundabout in Al-Suwaidaa city.

• On March 14: A civilian died in Al-Mowasaa hospital in Damascus affected by the wounds he sustained after being shot by his brother due to family disputes in Nahta town in eastern Daraa countryside.

• On March 15: Disputes took place for unknown reasons between a group of young men escalating to clashes with white weapons in Al-Amawen Square in the centre of the capital Damascus, causing the death of a civilian, where the murderer turned himself in to the authorities.

• On March 15: A young man died affected by the wounds he sustained when he was shot during quarrels between a group of young men in Al-Raml neighbourhood in Ghasan Harfosh St. in Lattakia city.

• On March 15: Residents found the body of a woman in her 40s dumped near Kanaker graveyard western of Al-Suwaydaa, where it was revealed that she was strangled to death before being set on fire as a way to disguise the crime as an accident.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 55 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 57 fatalities: 16 women, 35 young and adult men and six children. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Rif Dimashq: Eight murder crimes left a woman, seven men and a child dead.
• Latakia: Nine murder crimes left four men, five women and a child dead.
• Al-Suwaidaa: 11 murder crimes left a child, seven men and three women 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: Seven murder crimes left six men and a woman dead.
• Damascus: Seven murder crimes left two women, a child and four men dead.
• Aleppo: Three murder crimes left a child and two women dead.
• Deir Ezzor: Two murders crime left two young men dead.
• Al-Hasakah: One murder crime left one woman dead.
• Al-Qunaitrah: One murder crime left one young man dead.