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(Previous Incident Code: S1260)
The citizen journalist group, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, reported on the death of 14 civilians following alleged “shelling” by the US-led Coalition, near the al Naim roundabout, Raqqa City centre. In a subsequent report, also from RBSS, one man and his wife and his brother.
Despite reports reporting that as many as 14 civilians were killed, recent Amnesty field research reported that “Eleven members of the al-Ali family were killed when the building they sheltered in by Na’im square struck by an airstrike.”
The activist Salal al-Miftah gave a statement to Smart, in which he said that following the raid, near the area of Naim, the bodies of six civilians were recovered, whilst eight remained under the rubble. “Dozens” were reportedly wounded as a result of the airstrikes, Euphrates Post said.
RBSS published a subsequent report that identified Fari’aa Al-Ahmad (55 years) and her daughter Amwaj Al-dalli (27 years) as missing after the the raid – the report requested that if anyone had any information regarding the two women could they communicate with the RBSS facebook page.The Syrian Observatory said two children were among the dead.
All sources blamed the US-led Coalition for the attacks.
In the report Amnesty and Airwars’s joint April 2019 report “War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality”, Fatima, sister of a victim gave a testimony stating “My relatives went from place to place in search of safety but were bombed in each place, and when they try to flee the city, they were shot at by Daesh. What were civilians supposed to do? What options did they have?”
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Reports of the incident mention that the alleged Coalition airstrike targeted a building near the Al Naim roundabout (دوار النعیم), in the city centre of Raqqa, for which the coordinates are: 35.95447, 39.009392. There is visible damage of a tall building in the vicinity of the roundabout, between August 25 and September 9, 2017. The coordinates for this building are: 35.955538, 39.010416. However, Amnesty research reported the precise location of the strike: 35.95432, 39.00985.

Structural damage seen near Al Naim roundabout (دوار النعیم) (left: August 25, 2017; right: September 6, 2017)
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