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(Previous Incident Code: T59)
According to several sources, an unidentified number of civilians were wounded followed an alleged Turkish shelling on Ashka Gharbi village, Jandrissa, Afrin.
Afrin Now reported that in Syria the Turkish occupation army shelled the village of Ashka Gharbi of the Jundressa area in Afrin province with artillery. There were reports of civilian casualties and injuries caused by indiscriminate shelling.
On February 9th, The Military Council for Manbij and its countryside reported that at 6 pm yesterday, the village of Ashkan Gharbi was subjected to a very violent indiscriminate artillery bombardment causing civilian injuries.
The same video was used to document the shelling of Kafr Shila which injured three civilians, including two 10 year old boys and their mother. It is unclear to which incident it belongs.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Ashka Gharbi village, Jandrissa, Afrin (اشكا غابري), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.399444, 36.636667. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.