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(Previous Incident Code: I152)
A spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) stated that 12 civilians were injured in a Coalition airstrike on the village of Tell Yara in Bashiqa, north of Mosul.
Ghiyath Alsurja, a media official with the KDP, told reporters that the Coalition had targeted Daesh facilities in the village 17 km north of Mosul, killing a number of enemy fighters. But he added that “12 people from the village were also injured.”
In its July 2017 civilian casualty report, the Coalition denied responsibility for the event on the grounds of insufficient evidence of civilian harm: “Jan. 16, 2016, near Bashiqa, Iraq, via Airwars report: After a review of available information and strike video it was assessed that there is insufficient evidence to find that civilians were harmed in this strike.”
Given the named source for this allegation, Airwars continues to assess as likely.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Tell Yara, Bashiqa (تليارة), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.4447612, 43.2552338. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.