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(Previous Incident Code: I595)
A single local source reported that six civilians from the same family died after air strikes hit their house in Bab Lakash, in Old Mosul.
A senior Coalition official informed Airwars on July 5th that “It is primarily Coalition aircraft conducting AIR strikes in Mosul. It has been a number of weeks since the Iraqis flew there.”
In September 2018, the Coalition confirmed that it had killed six non combatants in the incident. Their report noted: “During a strike on ISIS fighting positions, six civilians were unintentionally killed.”
The Coalition provided Airwars with coordinates for this event 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 neighbourhood/area at 36.339738, 43.132406