Geolocation
Airwars assessment
Between 23 and 94 civilians were killed in an alleged Turkish airstrike on Al Bab, Syria, according to local media.
Al Jazeera reported the lowest death toll at 20 and refered to the ISIS media agency Al A’amaq as the source. Later Al A’amaq itself said the toll rose to 50.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights described “The death of 23 civilians because of Euphrates Shield forces missiles and shells fired on Al Bab city in Aleppo governorate suburbs, December 22, SNHR yet unable to verify the news, 2016.”
7al said 32 civilians died in the attack, whereas Russia Today reported 72 people dead.
Al Bab News posted on Facebook that “nearly 18 members of the al Shalash family, most of them women and children, killed following Turkish bombardment on al Bab.”
Halab News gave the highest death count at 91 and named many of the victims. Al Bab News reported the same names and said 45 more people were injured.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (6)
Family members (19)
Family members (6)
Family members (2)
Family members (28)
Family members (3)
Family members (11)
Family members (6)
Family members (2)
Family members (4)
Family members (4)
The victims were named as:
Summary
Sources (26) [ collapse]
Media
from sources (1) [ collapse]
-
Some of the victims of the mass civilian causality incident in Al Bab, Aleppo on 22nd December 2016. (via Aleppo 24)
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the city of Al Bab (الباب), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.371972, 37.51631. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.