The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Al-Suwaidaa | Uncertainty surrounds death of two young men with gun shots in southern countryside

Al-Suwiadaa province: SOHR sources have reported that the bodies of two persons in their forties from Ara village in the south-western countryside of Al-Suwaidaa were delivered to Al-Suwaidaa national hospital. There were gunshot wounds on the two bodies, but the circumstances of their death and motives behind this murder remain unknown.

 

According to SOHR sources, the two young men worked in agricultural projects. Meanwhile, tension has been growing among the village’s residents following this murder.

 

The Syrian Observatory has documented 205 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2023, where domestic violence and armed robberies were behind some of these murders, while motives behind the others remained unknown. These murder crimes left 235 fatalities: 51 women, 161 young and adult men and 23 children. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

 

 

  • Rif Dimashq: 32 murder crimes left five women, four children and 25 men dead.

 

  • Latakia: 21 murder crimes left nine men, 12 women and six children dead.

 

  • Al-Suwaidaa: 30 murder crimes left three children, 25 men and four women dead.

 

  • Homs: 18 murder crimes left 13 men, four women and two children dead

 

  • Hama: 22 murder crimes left a child, three women and 20 men dead.

 

  • Daraa: 31 murder crimes left 31 men and eight women dead.

 

  • Damascus: 13 murder crimes left four women, a child and eight men dead.

 

  • Aleppo: 13 murder crimes left six men, three children and six women dead.

 

  • Deir Ezzor: 17 murders crimes left two children, two women and 16 men dead.

 

  • Al-Hasakah: Two murder crime left one woman and one man dead.

 

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

 

  • Tartus: Four murder crimes left two women, a little girl and a man dead.

 

  • Idlib: One murder crime left five civilians dead.