(Previous Incident Code: S911)

Three members of one family, including a four-year-old girl, were killed in Raqqa city, with sources reporting that either SDF shelling or Coalition airstrikes were allegedly responsible.

A number of the sources identified the names of the victims and Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently shared images of all three individuals. Because Palmyra Media Center reported on their deaths, it is believed the family may have been displaced from Palmyra and had eventually settled in Raqqa.

All four sources reporting the incident alleged that either the US-backed SDF militia or the Coalition was responsible.

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, “Marwa Salim al Sabta, age 4, was killed with her grandfather Mohamad Salim al Sabta in Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces artillery shells fired on Saif al Dawla Street in the center of Raqqa city, June 18, 2017.” Only the Coalition was actually using artillery on the city in this period, according to officials.