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May 2010

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Man drowns his four children in lake

A 33-year-old man drowned his four children in a lake in north-east Aleppo on April 8, the private news website Syria News reported.

Zakariyya al-Zaher al-Mousa confessed to local police that he drowned his two sons and two daughters, aged between two and six, in Lake Tishreen following a financial dispute with his father about water bills, Syria News reported. The report said Mousa told police he killed his children because he knew his father loved them and “he wanted to cause him pain”.

The police were informed of the murder after Mousa, on the return trip home, told the taxi driver who had taken him and his family to the lake that he had killed his children.

“The father returned with the same taxi driver after two hours and when the driver asked about the children the father said that he threw them in the water, but quickly retracted his statement claiming he was joking,” a police statement said.

The bodies of Hajar, 6, Mousa, 4, Zarafeh, 3, and Abdul Rahman, 2, were discovered by schoolchildren playing near the lake, Syria News said.

Investigations into the case are ongoing.

UNESCO considers eight Syrian villages for its World Heritage List

UNESCO is considering registering eight archaeological sites in the Aleppo and Idleb governorates on its World Heritage List, local news website Akhbar Al-Aalam reported on April 17.

The management and preservation of the eight villages were discussed during a meeting between Minister for Local Administration Tamer al-Hijeh and a UNESCO delegation last month.

Three men sentenced to death for murder of businessman

The Military Criminal Court in Damascus sentenced three people to death for the murder of a Syrian businessman, the private news website Syria News reported on April 1.

Ehsan Nizamuddin was murdered in his house in Damascus’s upmarket Malki district in June 2008. According to Syria News, the killers stabbed Nizamuddin seven times in the waist and neck before shooting him with his own licensed gun. They also stole some SYP 700,000 (USD 15,217) from him.

The Criminal Security Forces arrested the men three weeks after the incident. All three pled guilty to murder.