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(Previous Incident Code: S703)
Between 12 and 18 civilians including eight children and four women – reportedly from the same family – died and dozens more were injured in an Coalition airstrike on the Al Hashem area north of Raqqa city, local media reported.
Euphrates Post said that 12 non-combatants were killed in the Coalition strike, most of whom were displaced from Raqqa’s Al Mashlab neighbourhood. The Syrian Network for Human Rights put the number killed at 13 including eight children and four women, saying that the Coalition was responsible.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the death toll rose to 15, of which there were five children and women. Again, the source blamed Coalition jets.
Ahmad al Shibli reported “a coalition massacre in raid on a home in Bi’r al Hashem”.
Al Ragga Truth reported that 15 members of the al Hamoud family died in the strike.
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Family members (4)
Family members (3)
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Bir Al Hashem (بئر الهشم), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.002222, 38.8875. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.