Geolocation
Airwars assessment
As many as 25 people from one family – named as the Eid Kabis family – died including eight children and two or three women and dozens more were wounded in an airstrike on Aleppo’s Al Marja neighbourhood. All but one source alleged that Russia carried out the strike.
According to Madar Daily, “14 members of a family were killed in a Russian air strike on the Marjah district of Aleppo, including two six-week-olds and six children under the age of eight.”
Ara News reported that “the field activist, Ali Jaafar, from the city of Aleppo told Ara that ‘Russian warplanes committed a terrible massacre in the Marjah neighbourhood of Aleppo after it was hit by a concussion missile. This caused the death of 15 people with many more wounded, including women and children’.”
Micro Syria put the death toll as high as 25, reporting that “Russian shelling targeted a building containing ten families.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights didn’t apportion blame, but stated that 13 people died including 10 children, “the majority from the same family”.
Only the Syrian Network for Human Rights pointed towards regime involvement, referring to “government warplanes” in one post and then “government warplanes and its allies” in a subsequent report.
Halab News named 13 victims, and blamed Russia for their deaths.These victims were also named by several other sources.
Multiple reports published distressing images of the dead children – and footage of their funeral.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (11)
The victims were named as:
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An image of multiple children who were killed in an alleged Russian and Syrian regime raid on Marjah, Oct 17th (via SN4HR) -
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Moments after the raid on Marjah which killed between 13 and 25 civilians. (via Ara News)
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White Helmets clear some of the rubble in the aftermath of the incident. (via Enabbaladi)
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A child victim of the alleged Russian and Syrian regime raid which struck Al Marjah, 17th October 2016. (via Alresalahpress) -
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Two child victims of the alleged Russian and Syrian regime raid which struck Al Marjah, 17th October 2016. (via Alresalahpress) -
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Two child victims of the alleged Russian and Syrian regime raid which struck Al Marjah, 17th October 2016. (via Alresalahpress) -
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A child victim of the alleged Russian and Syrian regime raid which struck Al Marjah, 17th October 2016. (via Alresalahpress)
Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia has not reported any strikes between October 1st – 19th 2016.