(Previous Incident Codes: R3271RS3475)

Local sources reported that up to 13 civilians including at least four children were killed and four others including children were injured in Russian forces or Syrian regime forces airstrikes on Tayba in Dara’a on June 27th, 2018. Daraa Martyrs Documentation Office said that ten of the victims were from the same family.

SMART News said “13 civilians were killed Wednesday as a result of a Russian air strike on the town of Tayba in the province of Daraa, south of Syria.”

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that many of those injured are in critical conditions and that many civilians are still missing and their fate is unknown.

Daraa Martyrs Documentation Office reported that “Syrian warplanes launched a raid on the town of Tayba in the eastern village of Daraa, targeting civilian sites inhabited by displaced persons from Daraa al-Balad, which resulted in the massacre of thirteen martyrs, including ten martyrs from one family.  Daraa Martyrs Documentation Office documented the martyrdom of: Ahmed Awad Abazid and three of his daughters and four of his grandchildren and two of his sons in law, in addition to two martyrs, one of them a child from Tayba and another unidentified child.”

From their side, Shaam Network blamed Russian warplanes for that. “Russian warplanes committed a new massacre in the eastern village of Daraa, where aircraft raided civilian houses and residential neighborhoods in the town of Tayba. Activists pointed out that the Russian aircraft targeted the town several raids, which led to the death of 7 martyrs who are displaced people from al Gharya, mostly children.”

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the operation was joint between Russian forces and the Syrian regime as they said ” the regime forces continue their targeting to Daraa countryside, deliberately expanding, with the support of the Russian warplanes.”

The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that “At least 9 civilians, most of them from the same family, killed as Syrian/ Russian regime warplanes fired missiles on Tayba village in Daraa governorate southeastern suburbs, on June 27, 2018.”

White Helmets published a video on Facebook in which their volunteers were rescuing a child who was under the rubble. Shaam News said the Russian warplanes raided civilians houses and residential areas, and that civil defense volunteers were not able to respond quickly because of the intensity of the bombing.

A civil defense spokesperson told SMART Agency that “Russian warplanes launched raids on residential neighborhoods in the town, killing 13 civilians and wounding four others, as civil defense teams recovered the victims and moved the wounded to nearby hospitals.”