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(Previous Incident Code: S1712)
An alleged Coalition night time airstrike killed “a number of civilians” and injured others, according to local media.
Several sources including the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SN4HR) reported the deaths of two civilian brothers. According to sources including Zaman Al Wasl, Al Soussa News, Al Shaafa News and the Syrian Unified Observatory, the injured belonged to the same family as the brothers.
Al Watan News reported that more civilians were trapped under the rubble of destroyed houses in the village. However Al Sha’afa News, while noting the deaths of the brothers, said that other family members were only lightly injured.
In its October 2020 monthly civilian casualty review, the US-led Coalition classed this event as ‘non credible’, asserting that “After a review of all available records it was assessed that no Coalition actions were conducted in the geographical area that corresponds to the report of civilian casualties.”
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Reports of the incident mention Al Sha’afa (الشعفة) village, for which the generic coordinates are: 34.57888, 40.93441. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.