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Woman kills her daughter in Khalde
Date of incident:
April 18, 2018
Death toll:
1 person
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Syrian Civilians/Refugees
A mother murdered her daughter claiming “family reasons of honor” in the coastal town of Khalde in Aley, an Internal Security Forces statement reported.
The ISF responded to a call at 10 p.m. on Tuesday saying that a murder had taken place at a house in the town. At the scene, the ISF found Syrian national H.H., born in 1980, sitting next to the body of her daughter Th.H., born in 1999. The ISF said the mother was in a “state of confusion.”
H.H. is said to have confessed to killing her daughter by strangling her with her hands then electrocuting and smothering her with a pillow.
Investigations are ongoing under the supervision of the judiciary.
Primary category:
Murder
Classification of conflict (primary):
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.
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