Geolocation
Airwars assessment
A father and one or two of his daughters were reported killed as a result of an alleged GNC/Libya Dawn airstrike on Sirte.
Most sources claim that a father with his two daughters were killed in an airstrike on their family home. However, some sources reported that only one of his daughters died and they were in fact in their car.
Tajwara News reported: “The terrorist aeroplane which belongs to Libya Dawn targeted a house in Zaafran residential neighbourhood, killing a father and his daughters.”
Afrigate News posted on Twitter that the “Sirte hospital receives three killed by mistake by Libya Dawn plane in the Zaafran area.”
Rawadfree1 wrote: “Shelling by an aircraft in the Zaafran area of Sirte, shrapnel hitting a car causing its burning, the death of a father and his daughter and another girl wounded.”
Ean Libya published a similar take: “Military aircraft from Libya Dawn hit a car in the Zaafran area, which led to the death of father and daughter.”
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (3)
Geolocation notes (1) [ collapse]
Reports of the incident mention the neighbourhood of Zaafran (زعفران), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.206944, 16.549167. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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Translation: Shelling of an air force in the Zafran area of Sirte, shrapnel hits a car causing its burning, the death of father and daughter and wounding another girl (Source: @rawadfree1)
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Another picture of the scorched car (via rawadfree1)
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Translation: Martyr Massoud Hamali. He died with his two daughters by bombing Fajr Libya flight today And news of the death of his third daughter Fatima (Source: @cleobatraa)
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Translation: your blood is our blood... RIP my dear (Source: Ibrahim Al-Himal, the victims relative)