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(Previous Incident Code: S1668)
Up to four civilians including a child were reported killed in Coalition airstrikes on al Sha’afa, according to a number of sources.
The victims were described as internally displaced people (IDPs) by al Sha’afa town’s Facebook page, which noted “Confirmation of the killing of four civilians in Al-Sha’afa in the recent raids on the town. The victims were IDPs in al Sha’afa and include an 11-year-old boy.”
Step News also noted that “Four civilians, including a child, were killed by air strikes by the International coalition aircraft yesterday in the eastern town of Al-Shafa, east of Deir Ezzor.”
Deir Ezzor 24 instead placed the death toll at three civilians killed, though it also blamed the US-led alliance. And Smart News noted that additional civilians were injured in the event: “A local source told Smart that four civilians were killed Thursday, including a child and others received wounds ranging between medium and light, as a result of bombing by the coalition aircraft International on the town of Shaaafa east of Deir Ezzor which is under the control of the Islamic State.”
In the second of their September 2020 civilian casualty reports, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were responsible for civilian harm in this strike as “non-credible”, stating that no Coalition actions were conducted in the geographical area at that time.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Al Sha’afa (الشعفة), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.57888, 40.93441. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.