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(Previous Incident Codes: R3321 RS3530 )
A child was killed in Badama, Idlib on Aug 5th, 2018 after a cluster bomb from previous bombing exploded while he was herding sheep.
The Syrian Committee for Human Rights said “A child was killed when a cluster bomb from the remnants of a previous bombing around the town of Badama exploded.”
Jisralshughour1 posted “the martyrdom of the child, Wassim Abdullah Bksraoui, as a result of wounds sustained as a result of the explosion of a cluster bomb from the remnants of a previous bombing while he was herding sheep.”
EdlibEMC said the cluster bomb was a remnant of a previous Russian forces bombing.
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Badama (بداما), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.811060, 36.196742. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.