(Previous Incident Codes: R176RS204)

Three civilians were reported killed, and five to six injured, in an alleged Russian airstrike on the town of Maarat al Numan, according to multiple sources.

Shaam News Network said the raid targeted the only water well in the town – at a time when a number of citizens were using the facility. It posted a video depicting the aftermath of the alleged strike. At 0’33” the sign on a wall reads: ‘The project for drinking water in Ma’arat Al Nu’uman’. A grain store or bakery was also reported destroyed.

A witness interviewed by Shaam notes: “The emergency centres were targeted in Ma’arat Al-Nu’man with a Russian missile. This is a humanitarian services centre which has no sign of militants and over there is the well of Ma’arat which feeds into the town. It is used for emergencies [fires etc] Is this a place of terrorists?  A child died here and two other people who had come to collect water. To the Arabs and to the civilised world – these are humanitarian targets that Putin is bombing.”

Moustafa Ghareeb, a local media activist, told the Syrian Network for Human Rights: “On Saturday the Russian warplanes launched four airstrikes on the city between 11:30 and 12:00 p.m. The airstrike targeted a water well of the Dourat Al Kheir Organization. This well provides the city with more than 130 filled water-tankers daily. The airstrike also targeted a wheat storage place which killed two individuals including a tank driver and injured 6 workers. The well and the storage place were damaged greatly.”

The SN4HR named two victims killed in the strike.