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(Previous Incident Code: S1533)
Between 8 and 25 civilians reportedly died and as many as “dozens” were injured as a result of a claimed Coalition airstrike on the town of Al Sha’afa.
An Abu Kamal local later told Al-Hail that the bombardment had wounded “mostly women and children”.
Orient News carried the most detailed report, noting that “Local sources from the region told Orient that the bombing targeted the town of Al-Sha’afa, which lies in the city of Abu Kamal, adjacent to the Iraqi border, killing 25 civilians, besides injuring others, and it’s the second massacre of its kind in this past week. For its part, the Euphrates Post said that the air bombardment targeted the town’s school, which led to its complete destruction and the destruction of four houses in the vicinity, noting that most of the dead are displaced people in the town and were living in the school after not being able to move any further.”
Sound and Picture, Baladi News and Deir Ezzor 24 all mentioned that the airstrike had hit a school housing families or Internally Displaced Persons. It is important to note that Baladi News quoted Al A’amaq, the media wing of so-called Islamic State, as its main source.