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(Previous Incident Codes: S1104R2222RS2361)
Three civilians from one family died (a father, his son and his daughter) and up to 20 more people were wounded in airstrikes in Shumeteya, according to local sources. No reports pointed directly at the Coalition – though several referred to unidentified “warplanes”. Other sources were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Syrian regime.
The majority of sources (including Jisrtv, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrianfreearmy) attributed the event to Moscow.
According to 7al, “”Russian warplanes carried out more than three raids on the village of al-Shamita, killing three civilians and injuring more than 20 others, mostly women and children, in addition to destroying a large amount of property,’ said Sufian al-Issa, a resident of the western countryside.”
The Syrian Press Center added, “Activists said that Russian air strikes targeted five civilian homes in the village of Shamitiya in the western countryside of Deir al-Zour, which resulted in the death of a father, his son and his daughter, in addition to destruction of property.”
But according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, regime warplanes were to blame.
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Shumeteya (الشميطية), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.470833, 39.935556. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.