Two civilians including a woman died, and more than four others were wounded in alleged Turkish airstrikes on Afrin, according to local media.
Afrin Now revealed a 70-year-old man was killed in the incident and the second victim, a 50-year-old woman, was indicated by Maf News.
However, a tweet in reply to the source Bekodo suggested that Amina Shahin was not a civilian – and an image was published of her holding a gun. Furthermore, Nuce Kurd and Bas News reported that it was Amina Shain who died of the heart attack, brought on my fear and panic.
According to Hawar, Turkish occupation planes destroyed two gunmen in the city of Afrin after five air strikes targeted it.
At approximately 23:30 local time, the Turkish planes targeted two farmers. The first to slaughter the sheep of Al Shaab municipality and the second to slaughter the chickens, which are one kilometre southwest of Afrin.
The shelling resulted in the deaths of the gunmen and the deaths of 15 sheep, and wounded three civilians.
There were five wounded civilians indicated by several sources.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
70 years old
male
from the village of Shikhurzze
killed
50 years old
female
displaced from Bulbula area
killed
Bader Darmoush
10 years old
male
A fragment in his chest, from Deir Ballout
injured
Mustaffah Beder Dirmoush
Child
male
injured
Dibeh Darmoush
35 years old
female
Shrapnel in the foot, from Deir Ballout
injured
Shukri Mustafa
88 years old
male
injured right thigh
injured
Khadija Abdul-Munan,
60 years old
female
taken to hospital, her condition became stable
injured
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the city of Afrin city (عفرين), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.511389, 36.864167. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
