(Previous Incident Codes: R167RS191)

On November 26, 2015, five adult male civilians were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on the main street of Maarat Al Nu’man in the Idlib governorate of Syria.

Orient News interviewed three witnesses to the attack (featured below). “The Russians carried out five raids, killing around six people and injuring many. They were all civilian passers-by,” states a civil defence worker, while a resident complained, “This is the main high street, busy with people. There are no terrorists and no Daesh here.” A second resident notes: “Five killed! If Turkey brings down one of their planes, it’s not our fault. Here, there is a school, where people were killed and injured here.“

Smart News alleged a ‘double tap’ strike, citing eyewitness Malek Sourani: “After the first raid, we went to the place of the rocket to see whether we could help the injured – so some civilians and civil defence had gathered. The warplanes returned and repeated their attack, which has led to the occurrence of a large number of martyrs and wounded.”

VDC has named five victims.

Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Russian military.