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(Previous Incident Codes: R3248RS3448)
A child was killed when a cluster bomb from a previous Russian shelling on Al-Tamana in southern Idlib, Syria, exploded on June 12th, 2018.
Edlib Media Center reported on Facebook that ” A child from the town of Sinjar was killed by a cluster bomb explosion from previous bombing on farms of al-Tamana town in the southern suburb of Idlib.”
SMART News reported from locals that the child “found a cluster bomb while harvesting grass in a farm town, and it led to his death immediately.”
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Al-Tamana (التمانعة), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.458501, 36.747808. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.