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(Previous Incident Codes: R4201 RS4441 )
Two civilians were reportedly injured in alleged Russian or Syrian regime air or artillery strikes on the town of Al Atarib, Aleppo governorate, on February 12th, 2020, according to local sources.
The Syrian Civil Defence reported that the artillery strikes led to two injured people, who were then treated by SCD teams in a hospital.
Local sources, as well as Al Araby Al-Jadeed News, initially reported that Al Atareb was targeted but no information concerning casualties was available. Syrian Civil Defense announced that two civilians were wounded, but no names were made available.
Local and larger news agencies noted that residential areas within Al Atareb were struck resulting in two civilians ultimately being wounded.
Shaam News reported that a combination of Russian and Syrian regime planes conducted the air raid while @anwarsleman2 attributed “several airstrikes” on Atarib to Russian planes.
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Al-Atarib (الاتارب), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.1375975, 36.8284035. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.