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(Previous Incident Codes: R1846RS1977)
One woman died and several other civilians were wounded in an alleged Russian airstrike on Abin Sama’an town, according to sources on the ground.
Omawi.news.agency reported: “Russian warplanes carried out several air strikes with rockets on the towns of Abyan Semaan and Sheikh Ali in the western countryside of Aleppo, wounding several people and causing extensive damage to civilian property.”
According to Baladi on March 16th, “The cities and towns of Al-Atareb, Sheikh Ali, Babis, Maarat al-Atareb, Abyan Samaan and Kfarkermin were heavily shelled by the Russian air force. Five civilians, mostly children and women, were killed in the areas of Sheikh Ali and Abyan Samaan.”
Smart News Agency reported that a woman died and pointed to Russia as the culprit.
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Abin Sama’an (أبين سمعان), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.092544, 36.757721. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.