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Airwars Assessment
(Previous Incident Code: S62)
A shepherd was reported by the Syrian Network as having been killed in a Coalition airstrike near Mitras. Five other people were injured by shrapnel.
The victim’s son later described retrieving his father’s body: “The rocket caused a great hole in the ground, almost two metres deep. I buried my father’s body in the town.“
However in July 2017 the Coalition classed the event as Non Credible on grounds of insufficient evidence of civilian harm: “April 26, 2015, near Mitras, Syria, 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.”
Airwars has requested additional information from the Coalition – and continues to class this event as likely.
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Mitras (متراس), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.62906, 38.29076. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.