A state of rage prevails Al-Shahil town east of Deir Ezzor between SDF and residents after killing and injuring 4 citizens after a fight in the town
Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: tension is still prevailing Al-Shahil town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, as a result of a fight that took place during the past 24 hours, which resulted in the fall of human losses between groups of the Syria Democratic Forces against the people of the town, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory; the quarrel took place between members of a patrol of the SDF against the owner of a shop in Al-Shahil town, where the residents intervened and settled the fight, but one of the members of the patrol, opened fire of his medium machinegun, killing an elderly man and injuring 3 other children with varying severity, which raged a state of anger and resentment, and as a result, tens of the residents of Al-Shahil town in the east of the Euphrates River, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, attacked a checkpoint and headquarters of the SDF in the town and seized vehicles of them, demanding to deliver the murderer, to be followed by bringing military and security reinforcements by the SDF to the town.
The reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that dignitaries and notables in the area gave the SDF a limit of 48 hours to reveal the identity of the murderer of the elderly man and hand him over to the judiciary to be punished, and the SDF have to take the responsibility for the robberies and looting taking place in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, by people pretend to be members of the SDF and rob houses, and the clans warned that they will be armed to protect them selves against the thieves and the gangs that have raided them pretending that they are of the SDF, and the sources confirmed to the SOHR that the SDF showed their response, and issued a circular forbidding night raids and dealing with each group carrying out overnight raids in the manner of the Syria Democratic Forces, as a band of thieves, and this movement came after raids and robberies carried out by people pretended to be members of patrols of the SDF.