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Airwars Assessment
(Previous Incident Code: I262)
A local source reported that An adult civilian male killed followed an alleged Coalition strike on the village of Tubzawa.
According to a single source, Mr Shihab’s two sons Younis aged 7 and Mustafa aged 2 years old were also severely injured in the incident – and were being treated in the intensive care unit at Irbil Hospital.
With British airstrikes confirmed in the area that day, Airwars reached out to the MoD, with information which included geolocates within 5km of the likely vicinity of the event (36.3828155, 43.3518415.)
The MoD official subsequently told Airwars that From the evidence you have provided… we cannot make any definitive assessment. However, I am able to confirm that there was no indication of any civilian casualties in our own detailed assessments of the impact of each of our strikes on the dates in question.”
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Tubzawa (طوبزاوة), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.3828155, 43.3518415. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.