New murder | Young man shot dead in western Al-Suwaidaa

Al-Suwaidaa province: SOHR sources have reported that a young man in his thirties died of the wounds he sustained during a fight with weapons with a man from Ariqah town in the western countryside of Al-Suwaidaa following a disagreement between them. The young man sustained serious injuries, as he received several gunshots, but he died after having arrived at the governmental hospital in Al-Suwaidaa city, affected by his injuries.

 

This coincides with the escalating security chaos and proliferation of arms in regime-controlled areas.

 

The Syrian Observatory has documented 118 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2023, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders, while motives behind the others remained unknown. These murder crimes left 132 fatalities: 29 women, 87 young and adult men and 16 children. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

 

• Rif Dimashq: 20 murder crimes left three women, two children and 16 men dead.

 

• Latakia: 17 murder crimes left eight men, nine women and five children dead.

 

• Al-Suwaidaa: 19 murder crimes left three children, 12 men and four women dead.

 

• Homs: 11 murder crimes left nine men, a woman and a child dead

 

• Hama: Six murder crimes left six men dead.

 

• Daraa: 15 murder crimes left 14 men and three women dead.

 

• Damascus: Ten murder crimes left three women, a child and six men dead.

 

• Aleppo: Six murder crimes left three children and three women dead.

 

• Deir Ezzor: Eight murders crime left nine men dead.

 

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

 

• Al-Qunaitrah: One murder crime left one young man dead.

 

• Tartus: Three murder crimes left two women and a little girl dead.

 

• Idlib: One murder crime left five civilians dead.