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(Previous Incident Code: S1688)
In what local media referred to as a “massacre”, five civilians including a woman and two or three children were reported killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the house of Rajab al-Hassan in the area of Al Boubadran, a village near al Soussa said to be under ISIS control.
The victims were named by multiple sources as Rajan al Hassan, his wife, their two children, and another man named as Zidan Atiyya al-Salbi.
Baladi News and Horrya joined the majority of sources in putting the death toll at five, noting that four of these people were from the same family.
But while @DeirEzzor24 also said five had died, it reported that three of these were children. All other sources, however, said that two children had died.
Free Deir Ezour Radio was alone in saying that the two children killed were Mr Rajab’s grandchildren; all other sources said that they were his children.
In its October 2020 monthly civilian casualty review, the US-led Coalition classed this event as ‘non credible’, asserting that “This report contains insufficient information on time, location, or details to assess its credibility.”
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Al Boubadran (البوبدران), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.554073, 40.950336. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.