Escalating security chaos | Civilian shot dead in front of his house in Daraa’s Sayda
Daraa province: SOHR sources have reported that two gunmen on a motorcycle shot a civilian dead in front of his house in Sayda town in the eastern countryside of Daraa. The reasons behind the crime and the identities of the perpetrators remain unknown.
This coincides with the escalating security chaos in regime-controlled areas.
The Syrian Observatory has documented 114 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2024, where domestic violence and armed robberies were behind some of these murders, while motives behind the others remained unknown. These murder crimes left 125 fatalities: six children, 20 women and 99 young and adult men. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:
- Daraa: 35 murder crimes left 30 men, three children and seven women dead.
- Al-Suwaidaa: Ten murder crimes left eight men a little boy and a woman dead.
- Rif Dimashq: 25 murder crimes left 21 men, two children and seven women dead.
- Homs: 12 murder crimes left 12 men dead.
- Hama: Six murder crimes left six men dead.
- Al-Hasakah: Two murder crimes left two men dead.
- Deir Ezzor: Seven murder crimes left six men and a woman dead.
- Damascus: Five murder crimes left two women and three men dead.
- Latakia: Four murder crimes left four men and a woman dead.
- Tartus: Five murder crimes left five men dead.
- Al-Quneitra: One murder crime left a man dead.