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(Previous Incident Code: S1641)
Local sources reported dead and wounded civilians after “artillery and missile shelling” on the outskirts of Al Soussa.
Step News Agency reported in full: “Dead and wounded civilians by artillery and and a rocket attack by the Syrian Democratic Forces on the outskirts of the town of Soussa countryside # Deir al-Azur East.”
However the SDF had no known access to artillery, suggesting that the Coalition was responsible.
Deir Ezzor 24 tweeted a similar report, but did not identify the culprit.
Almanar instead claimed that the civilians had been harmed after coming under attack from rocket propelled grenades.
In the second of their September 2020 civilian casualty reports, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were responsible for civilian harm in this strike as “non-credible”, stating that no Coalition actions were conducted in the geographical area at that time.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Al Soussa (السوسة), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.528889, 40.9675. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.