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(Previous Incident Code: S1692)
Local sources reported on “two new massacres” resulting from alleged Coalition airstrikes targeting the towns of Al Sha’fa and al-Kashma in Deir al-Zour. Several sources including Free Deir Ezzor Radio and Baladi News reported the killing of a total of 17 non-combatant civilians including four women and three children.
Baladi added that the victims were all Iraqis.
However, Step News Agency and a tweet from @Olay reported that 17 civilians were killed in Kashma alone and four others in the town of Shaafa, including women and children.
According to Step, those killed were members of ISIS families.
In its October 2020 monthly civilian casualty review, the US-led Coalition classed this event as ‘non credible’, asserting that “After a review of all available records it was assessed that no Coalition actions were conducted in the geographical area that corresponds to the report of civilian casualties.”
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Al Kashma (و الكشمة), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.6205556, 40.9386111. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.