A man has admitted to stabbing and strangling his wife to death in Baalbeck after he allegedly caught her having sex with two men - who then aided the killer in burying the woman, the Internal Security Forces reported Sunday.
According to an ISF statement, Syrian national M.H., born in 1985, admitted to murdering his wife, a Syrian woman identified as SH.h., born in 1986.
Her body was found buried in the town of Boudai on Wednesday.
After his arrest, M.H. confessed to the crime, claiming he killed Sh.H. after discovering her having sex with two men. “It was found that out of fear of being killed [by M.H.], they helped him dig a hole and place the body in it,” the ISF statement said.
One of the men, a Syrian national identified as A.M., born in 1989, was arrested, while the ISF is still searching for the second accomplice, Syrian national I.N.
On Wednesday when her body was found, a security source identified the 32-year-old woman as Shoueil al-Humeid, before details on her murder emerged. Local farmers found the body partially buried in the Hawsh Tal Safieh area
The state-run National News Agency reported at the time that Humeid was “kidnapped” more than one week prior, but the security source disputed the report at the time, saying the reason she left home was still under investigation.
Between early December and the end of January this year, at least eight women died violently at the hands of men in Lebanon, with news of the quick succession of killings sparking protests.
A number of similar crimes have been reported since, including the case of a Syrian woman who was found murdered in her home in Nabatieh in March, with her 3-year-old baby also suffering critical injuries. A man confessed to stabbing the woman more than 20 times after she refused his sexual advances.
According to figures collected by the gender-based violence NGO KAFA and Lebanon’s Support Civil Society Knowledge Center, last year saw the highest rate of femicide – the killing of a woman because of her gender – in Lebanon since the project started in 2010, with 17 victims of male violence.
Humeid’s murder also follows a string of recent violent crimes in Baalbeck that prompted the Higher Defense Council last week to enact “necessary measures” to improve security in the city and its outskirts.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
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