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(Previous Incident Codes: R3118RS3323)
At least one civilian was killed and several civilians, among which children, were wounded in alleged artillery and airstrikes on the city of Harasta. Conflicting reports blamed both Russia and the Syrian regime.
While most sourced mentioned 1 casualty, @hmadaataya reported on Twitter that nine civilians were killed.
Smart News Agency reported that more than eight aerial, 12 artillery and three rocket strikes took place.
Smart said: “The civil defense reported the killing of a civilian and wounded others in the bombing of the city of Harasta with more than eight air raids and 12 land to land missiles, and three rockets loaded with phosphorous burning, pointing out the center in the city for service because of repeated bombing.”
Mortar shells were also reportedly used in the attacks.
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Harasta (حرستا), for which the generic coordinates are: 33.55869, 36.36515. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.