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(Previous Incident Codes: R1863RS1994)
A mother and her four children were among 11 civilians killed and 20 wounded in alleged Russian airstrikes on villages in northern Syria, Smart News Agency reported. A further 20 civilians were reportedly wounded.
According to the Smart News Agency, “Thirty-one civilians, including children and women, were killed and wounded by air strikes by Russian planes on several villages in the western Rifqa countryside in northern Syria, several sources told Smart.
“The medical source said that city hospital, controlled by IS, received 11 dead and twenty wounded, including children and women. A whole family comprising a mother and four children were killed by air strikes on villages in the vicinity of the city.”
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Abu A’ssi village, Dibsi village and Dibsi al Faraj villages (دبسي الفرج دبسي أبو عاصي ), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.779383, 38.324797. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.