The Director-General of the regime’s General Authority for Forensic Medicine, Zaher Hajjo, confirmed that the number of murder victims that took place this year has reached 414, given that the murder may include more than one victim, including 353 males and 61 females.

Hajjo added to the loyalist Al-Watan newspaper that the murders in the regime-controlled areas varied between 297 as a result of gunshots, 36 stabbings with a sharp object, 33 victims as a result of beatings with a flat object, 21 victims as a result of an explosion from the remnants of war, in addition to 14 victims of suffocation and three victims of suffocation. The crime of slaughter.

Hajjo pointed out that the most murder cases occurred in Daraa governorate, with 115 victims, and it topped the scene for the fourth year in a row with the number of victims resulting from murders, followed by As-Suwayda, with 66 victims, and Damascus countryside with 46 and Aleppo 40 victims.

 He pointed out that the commission recorded 39 victims as a result of murders in Al- Quneitra, 33 in Hama and 29 in Homs, while in Damascus, 26 victims were recorded, in Tartous 12 victims, and in Latakia, only 8 victims were recorded due to murders. It is noteworthy that Syria topped the list of Arab countries with a high rate Crime, and ranked ninth globally, for the year 2021, according to "Numbeo Crime Index" website, which specializes in indicators of crime in the world.