(Previous Incident Codes: R1353RS1486)

Up to seven people from the same family including between two and five children and up to two died and more were wounded in an airstrike on Ma’ar Shmareen village, according to local media – though sources were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Syrian regime.

The lowest death count was given as two by @spm_syria, who blamed the regime.

Halab Today attributed the event to Russia, reporting that seven people from one family including two children and a woman died. @RevolutionSyria also pointed to Russia.

But a number of other sources attributed the event to the Syrian regime.

According to Syria News Desk, “a man and his wife and five of their children were killed and two other children were injured, overnight, as a result of regime warplanes carrying out two raids with heavy machine guns the village of Maar Shmareen, south east of Maarat al Numan”.

@Hasan_Jneed tweeted images showing “the work of civil defence teams during the rescue operation of a strike which killed seven people from one family, including five children”.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights joined a number of reports in not identifying the culprit; it put the death toll at five from one family including two women.