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(Previous Incident Code: S1183)
Two children were killed and up to 40 other civilians injured (mostly women and children) in airstrikes on the city of al Mayadeen, Deir Ezzor, local media reported. The offensive struck the Fatima Al-Zahraa Women’s Hospital. It is not wholly clear at present who was responsible.
Jisirtv news cited an A’amaq’s agency report which blamed Moscow, and refered to the use of cluster bombs in the alleged strikes. In the same report they described the location of the alleged strikes to have been the ‘vicinity of the National Hospital and the Center for the revival of the countryside’. Activists in a Syriahr news also alleged that ‘warplanes, likely to be Russian’ were responsible for the incident.
A Tweet by @HadiAlabdallah held the US led Coalition responsible for the attacks, however at present all other sources point toward Russia, and ‘warplanes’ or ‘cluster bombs’ to have been involved.
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Reports of the incident mention the city of Al Mayadin (ميادين), for which the coordinates are: 35.016667, 40.444167. Reports mention that the airstrike targeted the main street, the “Rural Recovery Center” (مركز إنعاش الريف) and the women’s hospital of Fatima Al-Zahra (مشفى فاطمة الزهراء). Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the coordinates of these locations.