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(Previous Incident Code: I129)
A family of five including three children was killed in a US airstrike on the Albothiab Island area of Ramadi.
The deceased, the Kazem family, were later named by Al Fallujah News.
CENTCOM confirmed the casualty event on April 22nd 2016, noting: “On Dec. 12, 2015, in Ramadi, Iraq, during a strike on ISIL personnel at a suspected ISIL checkpoint, it is assessed that five civilians were killed after they unexpectedly moved into the target location after weapons were already in flight.“
It was also reported that the day before the incident, Iraqi government aircraft had targeted civilian taxis in the same area, killing two.
In July 2019 the Coalition provided Airwars with coordinates for this incident, accurate to within a 100 metre box.
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Prior to the Coalition releasing the MGRS for this incident, Airwars had geolocated it to the nearest city at 33.437441, 43.286666