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Airwars Assessment
Some of the names in this incident were initially reported by several sources under incident number CS1429a (Amjad Ahmed Taha Al-Suwairi, Mohammed Ayman Sweiri and Ahmad Taha Al-Omar Al Suweiri). During investigations of this event for the April 2019 joint Airwars and Amnesty report War in Raqqa: Rethoric versus Reality (www.raqqa.amnesty.org), Amnesty field researchers were able to identify the location (near Baladi Stadium) of the strike in which 18 members of the Sueri family were killed.
The joint Amnesty/Airwars report War in Raqqa: Rethoric versus Reality notes: Seven members of the Al-Sueri family were killed when the building they were sheltering in was hit by an air strike. Eleven other people were also killed in the same strike but have not been named. A relative of the Al-Sueri family, a woman named Amal, spoke to Amnesty researchers: “Many other neighbours were killed in the same strike, including some wives and children of Daesh fighters. Our relatives stayed in the building because there was a water well nearby.”
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Image of the building before the strike on August 11, 2017 (via Amnesty International)

Image of the building after the strike on August 18, 2017 (via Amnesty International)