Angry Idlib residents who assembled at the funeral of an elderly man who died after being beaten by an Uzbek element of Tahrir al-Sham are demanding that the extremist alliance hold the perpetrator to account for his crime.

Tensions rose as residents congregated at the funeral and condolence ceremony for 70-year-old Muhannad al-Haraky, who was beaten by a foreign fighter and his wife outside his house in Idlib city centre, local activist Haisam al-Idlibi said.

Three days later, al-Haraky died of his wounds, al-Idlibi told Diyaruna.

The dispute began when al-Haraky asked his Uzbek neighbour to refrain from making loud noise at night, which prompted the man and his wife to attack him, al-Idlibi said.

Al-Haraky was transported to hospital, where one of his kidneys and his spleen were removed, but he died three days after the incident as a result of blood loss and complications, as he had been in poor health.

"The Uzbek fled his house on the day of the incident," al-Idlibi said, "but returned the next day accompanied by a number of Uzbek extremists."

A crowd of angry city residents congregated at the burial and condolence ceremony and demanded that the perpetrators be brought to justice and that Tahrir al-Sham lift the cover off them.

A call was issued for a protest to denounce this act of violence and to protest the rampant lawlessness in the city and its hinterland, where residents are frequently subjected to abuse, including detentions and assassinations.

Al-Idlibi noted that a neighbourhood inhabited mostly by Uzbeks was closed by Tahrir al-Sham, and cars were blocked from entering it.

A day before the deadly beating, Tahrir al-Sham elements opened fire on a car driven by a civilian in the city who works in currency exchange, he said.

The man was accompanied in the car by his wife, children and mother in law, and the latter was hit in the head by a bullet and died from her wound, he said.