Following subjecting to physical violence | Elderly woman killed by thief in eastern countryside of Aleppo

Aleppo province: An elderly woman in her seventh decade was killed by a thief in Banan village in Al-Safirah area in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, which is held by the regime forces, after storming her house with the aim of stealing gold jewelry and money.
According to information, the woman was subjected to a physical violence after receiving several blows with a sharp object to the head and chest, which resulted in her death, while local authorities intervened and arrested the killer who confessed to stealing gold jewelry and a sum of 500 thousand SYP, and he was taken to a security agency.
This comes in light of the increasing crime rates in regime-held areas.
The Syrian Observatory has documented 198 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 217 fatalities: 11 children, 40 women and 166 young and adult men. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Daraa: 65 murder crimes left 59 men, five children and 12 women dead.

• Rif Dimashq: 40 murder crimes left 32 men, three children and ten women dead.

• Homs: 21 murder crimes left 18 men, a little girl and two women dead.

• Al-Suwaidaa: 18 murder crimes left 13 men, a little boy and five women dead.

• Hama: 12 murder crimes left ten men and two women dead.

• Tartus: Ten murder crimes left eight men, a child and a woman dead.

• Deir Ezzor: Nine murder crimes left seven men and two women dead.

• Damascus: Seven murder crimes left two women and six men dead.

• Latakia: Six murder crimes left six men and a woman dead.

• Aleppo: Seven murder crimes left four men and three women dead.

• Al-Hasakah: Two murder crimes left two men dead.

• Al-Quneitra: One murder crime left a man dead.