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(Previous Incident Code: S1770)
A woman was reported killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike on a residential building in Al-Baghouz town. Surrounding houses were also reportedly damaged.
In a tweet, Deir Ezzor 24 reported that “The International Alliance Air is targeting a gathering of displaced people on the outskirts of the town of # Al-Baghouz in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor,” though it gave no civilian casualty numbers.
The state-run Syrian news agency reported that “Local sources told SANA’s reporter that the warplanes of the US-led coalition shelled residential buildings in al-Baghouz town, killing a woman and causing damage to some of the locals’ houses and properties.”
And Step News claimed that “Aircraft of the International Alliance launched several raids on the outskirts of the town of Al-Baghouz and the eastern suburb of Deir Ezzor, on the mountain side. The aircraft also targeted civilian camps with machine guns without information on the size of the losses.” It named one man, Diaa Hamdan al-Safi, as being injured by machine gun fire.
According to Suriye UAD, the strike targeted a mosque but no other sources supported this claim. Zaman Al Wasl added that a number of civilians were injured in the attack.
In a civilian casualty assessment released April 16th 2021, the Coalition dismissed this event as ‘non credible, claiming (while suggesting the wrong date) that “Jan. 1, 2019, in al Baghouz, Syria, via Airwars. 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 Baghouz (الباغوز), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.4641667, 40.9452778. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.