Gu*nshot to the head | Residents find body of young man in his 30s in his house in Damascus

Damascus province: Residents have found the body of a young man in his 30s, shot in the head inside a house that he rents in Jabal Al-Roz in Damr in the capital Damascus, in mysterious circumstances, where the investigations remain ongoing to reveal the details of the crime.

This comes in light of the escalation of rate of crimes within regime-held areas.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 62 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 64 fatalities: 17 women, 40 young and adult men and six children. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Rif Dimashq: Ten murder crimes left a woman, nine men and a child dead.
• Latakia: Nine murder crimes left four men, five women and a child dead.
• Al-Suwaidaa: 12 murder crimes left a child, eight men and three women dead.
• Homs: Four murder crimes left a man, a woman, a young man and a child dead
• Hama: Three murder crimes left three men dead.
• Daraa: Seven murder crimes left six men and a woman dead.
• Damascus: Nine murder crimes left three women, a child and four men dead.
• Aleppo: Three murder crimes left a child and two women dead.
• Deir Ezzor: Three murders crime left three young men dead.
• Al-Hasakah: One murder crime left one woman dead.
• Al-Qunaitrah: One murder crime left one young man dead.