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(Previous Incident Code: S500)
An ISIL leader and his family died in an alleged Coalition strike in Kasrat Al Faraj, according to local sources.
According to the Smart news agency, “local and medical sources told Smart that an Islamic State commander and his family were killed in an aerial bombardment likely carried out by the international coalition on the village of Kasrat al Faraj”. Smart added: “The Iraqi was killed with his wife and his son, pointing out that their charred bodies were transferred to the National Hospital of the city, to be buried later.”
Other sources also blamed the Coalition, with Syri Scope naming the ISIL leader as Attiyat allah al Iraqi. Reports said that the Coalition targeted the car the victims were travelling in.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Kasrat Faraj (كسرة الفرج), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.9096301, 38.9961433. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.