The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

With a rock | Thief ki*lls an elder woman in Hama countryside

Hama province: The body of a woman in her 70s was found killed inside her house in Al-Sakkaliya Village in Hama countryside, where she was hit on her head by a thief with a rock, while the concerned authorities interfered and arrested the murderer.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 237 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 261 fatalities: 15 children, 49 women and 197 young and adult men. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

* Daraa: 76 murder crimes left 70 men, six children and 12 women dead.

* Rif Dimashq: 44 murder crimes left 35 men, four children and ten women dead.

* Homs: 25 murder crimes left 22 men, a little girl and three women dead.

* Al-Suwaidaa: 23 murder crimes left 15 men, a little boy and eight women dead.

* Hama: 18 murder crimes left 13 men, six women and two children dead.

* Tartus: 11 murder crimes left nine men, a child and a woman dead.

* Deir Ezzor: 11 murder crimes left nine men and two women dead.

* Damascus: Nine murder crimes left two women and eight men dead.

* Latakia: Eight murder crimes left seven men and two women dead.

* Aleppo: Nine murder crimes left six men and three women dead.

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

* Al-Quneitra: One murder crime left a man dead