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(Previous Incident Code: S1757)
Alleged Coalition airstrike and artillery shelling targeted a residential area in Al Shaafa town, reportedly killing a total of six civilians.
Among the declared victims were a family of four civilians that were killed when artillery shelling targeted their house.
In addition, Sputnik reported the death of a Chechen civilian woman. Citing Khida Saratov, a member of the Human Rights Council of the Chechen President and the Working Group on the Return of Russian Women and Children from the Middle East Conflict Zone, it announced that a Russian woman and child were killed during the bombing. “Khava Akihadova, a 35-year-old woman from the district of Nadeterechi in Chechnya, was killed by the international coalition air attack on the village of Shaaf in Deir al-Zour province and has five daughters aged between a month and a half to 12 years old, who temporarily sought refuge in a Kurdish family.” The daughters survived.
However, Sputnik added that “As a result of a missile fired at a house in the same area, Khalid 4-year-old, the grandson of Rosa Yuzbekova of Dagestan, was seriously injured and could not move.” The other son Omar survived.
In its December 2020 monthly civilian casualty report, the Coalition assessed this event as ‘non credible’, claiming that ” The allegation provided insufficient detail to identify a specific date, time, or location to assess its credibility.”
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Al Shaafa (الشعفة), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.592522, 40.93441. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.