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(Previous Incident Codes: R517RS588)
Three civilians including one woman and one child died in an alleged Russian airstrike on Al Gariya, according to local sources.
The VDC named one adult male victim of a Russian strike as Khaled Ayed al Mefrej. All4Syria also attributed the incident to Russia, reporting that “Russian warplanes targeted the towns and cities (Naemeh – East Ghariyah – West Ghariyah – Alma – elSoura – elHerak) with more than 40 raid cluster bombs internationally forbidden, which led to the fall of a number of the victims were civilians, specifically in the east of Gharriyahl.“
According to Daraa Martyrs, Khaled Ayed el Mffarej died in a strike by “warplanes”, though didn’t identify the planes. Syria 2011 named an additional two victims of a Russian raid.
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Al Gariya (الغارية), for which the generic coordinates are: 32.6854754, 36.2402058. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.