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(Previous Incident Code: S420)
One person was reported killed in an alleged Coalition strike on al Qata – though it was not clear whether they were a civilian or a combatant.
According to the Syrian Observatory, “warplanes believed to be affiliated to the International coalition targeted places in the desert of the town of Qata eastern Deir Ezzor, which resulted in the death of at least one person.”
On March 4th the Coalition said it was assessing an event “near Dayr Az Zayr, Syria, via self-report.” Two months later officials confirmed that “that one civilian was unintentionally killed when he entered the target area after the munition was released.” The provided location – 37SFU 42967 39806 – lies equidistant between al Qata and Sbeikhan and it is our present assessment that these are most likely the same event.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Al Qata (القطعة), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.66164, 40.79138. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.