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(Previous Incident Code: I120)
Multiple civilian casualties were claimed in Qayyarah after the Coalition was accused of bombing civilian houses in the town.
Face Iraq reported that seven children and an elderly woman died in the event, which it said destroyed six houses in the vicinity of the Khader mosque (which some sources said had also been destroyed). Three images were also published showing the damage.
Shafaaq also said the incident was a Coalition strike – but that ten civilians from the same family were injured rather than killed.
Local MP Ahmed al-Jubouri later condemened the attack, saying the Coalition had carried out the strike “without any coordination either with the Iraqi central government, local government, or the Mosul operational command.“
In their January 2020 civilian casualty report, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were responsible for civilian harm in this strike as “non-credible”, stating that no Coalition actions were conducted in the geographical area at that time.
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Reports of the incident mention the city of Qayyarah (القيارة), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.7977836, 43.2935143. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.