Unknown persons slaughter a woman in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor

DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday evening, the residents of the town of Sabha, 30 km east Deir ez-Zor found a beheaded body of a woman inside an abandoned building.

“The woman was slaughtered with a knife,” a security source from the town told North Press.

“The 35-year-old woman was from the city of al-Mayadeen, west Euphrates, and she lived in the town of Sabha a year ago,” the source added.

The eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor witnesses kidnappings and killings by unidentified individuals and for unknown reasons.

On February 17, ISIS claimed responsibility for slaughtering a young man with a knife in front of Shehail Municipality building, east Deir ez-Zor.

Reporting by Muhammad Ali