New murder crime | Civilian drowns his daughter in pool of water in Al-Suwaidaa city
Al-Suwaidaa province: A civilian killed his 17-year-old daughter by drowning her in a pool of water at their house in Al-Mal’ab Al-Balady neighbourhood in Al-Suwaidaa city, after he had tortured her for unknown reasons.
According to reliable SOHR sources, the father refused the intervention of the family relatives and prevented them from taking the girl to the hospital, while elders and religious figures could later retrieve the body of the girl and handed over the killer to local authorities for punishment.
The Syrian Observatory has documented 210 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 240 fatalities: 52 women, 164 young and adult men and 24 children. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:
- Rif Dimashq: 33 murder crimes left five women, four children and 26 men dead.
- Latakia: 21 murder crimes left nine men, 12 women and six children dead.
- Al-Suwaidaa: 31 murder crimes left four children, 25 men and four women dead.
- Homs: 20 murder crimes left 16 men, four women and a child dead
- Hama: 22 murder crimes left a child, three women and 20 men dead.
- Daraa: 32 murder crimes left 31 men and nine 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.