Hawl camp in northeast Syria witnesses first crime in 2022
Hasakah, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) found the body of an anonymous person at Hawl Camp east of Hasakah, northeast Syria.
A source from the Asayish told North Press that they found unknown killed person this morning near a mosque in the fourth sector of the camp.
The source added, the killed was shot in the head four times by unknown individuals, likely to ISIS sleeper cells.
The body has been not identified by the camp’s residents, yet. This morning, the Asayish started searching the victim’s identity and investigating about perpetrators.
Two days ago, the Asayish found a Syrian IDP body at the fifth sector of the camp who he was killed by a silencer gun.
The Hawl Camp has witnessed many killing incidents, during the current year; most of them were carried out via silencer weapons.
Since early 2021, more than 90 killing incidents were recorded in the camp most of them were carried out against Iraqi refugees.
The Camp houses about 15,650 families with total of 57,516 individuals including 8,049 Iraqi families and 5,153 Syrian ones.
Additionally, it includes about 2,448 families with an estimate of 8,245 individuals including women and children of detained and dead of foreign ISIS militants.
It is also known as a “ticking time bomb” due to the presence of extremists of ISIS wives and children, and tens of thousands of their supporters in a camp sometimes described as “the most dangerous camp in the world”.