(Previous Incident Codes: R3559RS3770)

One to five civilians were reported killed in airstrikes on Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib, on June 6th.

While Shaam News reported that one child had been killed in airstrikes, Syria Civil Defense stated that “five civilians were killed and others were injured as a result of the intensive shelling of the residential neighborhoods of Khan Sheikhoun by regime forces on the third day of Eid al-Fitr.”

Syrian Network for Human Rights named the child killed in the attack as Abdul Hamid al Jawhar. @abdalazezketaz  said that his parents were injured.

While four other sources also reported the airstrikes, with the Local Coordination Committee for Syria stating that “civilians were wounded by shelling in Khan Sheikhoun”, these sources did not claim any deaths in the incident.

Four sources attributed the attack to Russia, while Syria Civil Defense and the Syrian Network for Human Rights named the Syrian regime as the active belligerent. Meanwhile the Local Coordination Committee for Syria did not positively attribute blame.

Syrian Observatory for Human rights stated that the attack, which according to this source was carried out by “Russian warplanes”, amounted to “four airstrikes on Khan Sheikhoun city”.