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(Previous Incident Code: S1159)
Up to 20 civilians including seven children and their mother died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the al Badou and al Takana neighbourhoods in Raqqa, according to local media.
All sources blamed the US-led Coalition, and put the minimum death toll at eight.
According to Sound and Picture and Raqqa18, 10 people from the Al-Junaid family died. Other sources said the victims included a woman and her seven children.
RNN put the number killed even higher, at 20 civilians, adding that most of them were from the Al-Junaid family.
@Khaled_qahtan reported that dozens were killed and wounded in the event, while A’amaq [ISIS propaganda] published a very graphic video (below) showing child casualties reportedly from the incident. Other sources published images taken from this footage.
The Syrian Observatory reported “the death of 8 citizens they are a woman, 2 male children and 5 female children, all of them are of one family, as a result of bombing by the International Coalition on areas in Al-Raqqah City,”
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Reports of the incident mention the Raqqa neighbourhoods of Al Badou (حارة البدو) and Al Thakana (حي الثكنة). Reports of the incident mention that the alleged Coalition airstrike targeted barracks in the neighbourhood of Al Thakana, for which the coordinates are: 35.9478905, 39.0067863. The coordinates for the neighbourhood of Al Badou are: 35.958889, 39.008889

The locations of Al-Badou and al-Thakana
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