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Airwars Assessment
(Previous Incident Code: I394)
A single local media source reported that ten civilians were killed and many others were wounded in Coalition raids on Mazirr village, near Dibis region, north of Kirkuk City.
No additional details are presently known.
In December 2018, the Coalition announced that it had classed the event as non credible due to a lack of available evidence of civilian harm: “Feb. 24, 2017, near Mazir, Kirkuk, Iraq, via Airwars report. After a review of available information and strike video it was assessed that there is insufficient evidence to find civilians were harmed in this strike.”
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Mazir (مزير), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.4889697, 43.9799585. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.