(Previous Incident Codes: R3955RS4194)

Three civilians, including a child, were reported killed and up to five others injured in an alleged Russian airstrike on Ma’arat AlNaasan in Idlib, on November 24th 2019, according to local sources.

The Syrian Civil Defense said the six civilians are from one family and named the killed ones: Reema Ramadan, aged 60, Mohamed Omar Ramadan aged 40 and Mustafa Ramadan aged 14. The airstrike also injured Radwan Ramadan aged 35, Ahmed Ramadan aged 20 and Walid Ramadan aged 20 as well. The Civil Defense said that civilian homes had been targeted.

According to the Step News Agency, “Russian aircraft bombed the center of Ma’arat al-Naasan in the eastern countryside of Idlib with with vacuum missiles, killing three civilians and wounding two others seriously.”

The correspondent for Trib Arab News explained that “the raids caused the death of three civilians from one family and the wounding of others of varying degrees, in addition to extensive destruction of infrastructure and civilian properties, private and public.”

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said: “At least three civilians, including a child and a woman, were killed as fixed- wing warplanes we believe were Russian fired missiles on the vicinity of Ma’aret al Na’san village in the northern suburbs of Idlib governorate, on November 24, 2019.”

The majority of sources that reported on the incident attributed the strikes to Russia.