(Previous Incident Code: S640)

Up to eighteen civilians including nine children and three women died in alleged Coalition airstrikes in Tabaqa, according to multiple local sources.

Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently reported that “the family of Ali Abu Aish was killed after they were targeted by a coalition plane with machine gun fire while they were trying to leave Al Tabaqa.” The group later said that as many as 17 civilians were killed, reporting that they died “as a result of the targeting by international coalition aircraft of civilian cars as the cars tried to get out of the city of Al Tabaqa which is besieged by the Kurdish militias.”

Step News Agency was among other sources attributing the incident to the Coalition. It said that the death toll had risen to 11. According to Al Jazeera, which also put the death toll at 11 including eight from one family, the Coalition carried out a raid “near the School of Industry” while another strike “targeted a car of a family trying to flee the city.” Syrian Press Center and Qasioun put the death toll as high as 18.

RBSS named 17 victims.