The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Unknown gun-men | civilian kil-led in eastern countryside of Salamiyah

Hama province: A civilian in his fourth decade died of injuries he sustained, after being shot by unknown gunmen on a motorbike, where he was targeted in Aqareb village in the eastern countryside of Salamiyah, and then the gunmen fled to an unknown destination.
These incidents come as a part of the ongoing security chaos in regime-held areas.
The Syrian Observatory has documented 158 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 176 fatalities: 40 women, 116 young and adult men and 20 children. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:
Rif Dimashq: 25 murder crimes left three women, two children and 19 men dead.
Latakia: 18 murder crimes left nine men, nine women and five children dead.
Al-Suwaidaa: 23 murder crimes left three children, 16 men and four women dead.
Homs: 13 murder crimes left nine men, a woman and a child dead.
Hama: 16 murder crimes left a child, 14 men and a woman dead.
Daraa: 20 murder crimes left 16 men and six women dead.
Damascus: 11 murder crimes left three women, a child and seven men dead.
Aleppo: Ten murder crimes left three children and five women and four men dead.
Deir Ezzor: 15 murder crimes left two children, two women and 14 men and dead.
Al-Hasakah: One murder crime left one woman dead.
Al-Qunaitrah: One murder crime left one young man dead.
Tartus: Four murder crimes left two women and a little girl dead.
Idlib: One murder crime left five civilians dead.