(Previous Incident Code: S1351)

At least one civilian was killed with perhaps four or more additional casualties after a Coalition airstike near Al Hana hospital in Abu Kamal, according to local media. While a number of sources didn’t identify the culprit, at least two attributed the incident to the US-led Coalition. In July 2018 the alliance accepted responsibility for unintentionally killing one civilian.

According to RFS, “In the city of Abu Kamal warplanes carried out raids on a number of houses, one of which was aimed at the organization [IS] and is in the vicinity of the hospital in the center of the city. There was news of a number of civilians killed and injured along with members of IS.”

Euprates Post reported that “warplanes launched an air strike at dawn today targeting a building near al-Hana Hospital in the city of Abu Kamal, with reports of civilian casualties”.

Marsad al Hassaka provided some more information, saying that “a displaced family and a civilian young man from Abu Kamal” were killed in a Coalition strike near Al-Hana hospital.

Step also blamed the Coalition for conducting strikes near the hospital, which resulted in an unspecified number of civilian casualties.

In its July 2018 civilian casualty report, the Coalition took responsibility for the event, noting: “September 25, 2017, near Abu Kamal, Syria, via Airwars report. During a strike on Daesh Headquarters one civilian was unintentionally killed.” Officials confirmed that this related to event S1351, and provided Airwars with the location of this incident, accurate to within a 100 metre box.