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Airwars assessment
Local and medical sources said that 15 civilians were killed and many others injured and children displaced, in an alleged Coalition airstrike.
Al Jazeera said that as many as 27 civilians were killed on Saturday in an airstrike by the international coalition in the east of Mosul. A medical source, D. Raed Ahmed al-Hamdani, had told Al Jazeera that “witnesses who accompanied the wounded reported that coalition aircraft bombed ten fuel vehicles, killing 15 civilians [who] were at the scene.” Hamdani also reported that “the vehicles, were completely destroyed and owned by civilians, who were not related to ISIL, which is usually the target of the international Coalition.” In a tweet, Al Jazeera alternatively put the death toll at 15.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
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US-led Coalition Assessment:
Original strike reports
For January 6th-7th the Coalition publicly stated that: “Near Mosul, six strikes engaged five ISIL tactical units; destroyed six fighting positions, two VBIEDs, two ISIL-held buildings, two heavy machine guns, two weapons caches, an IED, a mortar system, a homemade explosives facility, an ISIL headquarters building, a supply cache, and a mobile artillery system; damaged 21 supply routes; and suppressed five tactical units.