Eleven named civilians were killed – including five children, a woman and two men – and dozens more were wounded in an alleged air and artillery strike on a market in Douma, according to reports from the ground. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame. Many attributed the strikes to Russian missiles, while others reported the Syrian regime was responsible for ground artillery shelling.
Three of the children killed in the airstrike were siblings. One man was a blacksmith who worked in the market.
The strikes allegedly struck a popular market and residential neighbourhood with napalm bombs and missiles. Additionally, many sources reported that land-to-land missiles and artillery shells were used in the bombardment. Many of the shells resulted in a “severe blast” according to Shaam.
Additionally, sources such as Alsouria reported that eight raids occurred, each one carrying at least two missiles.
Video footage showed huge fires in the immediate aftermath of the raid, with civilians being dragged from burning buildings. Douma Revolution reported that bodies were charred from the fires caused by the blast.
Many wounded civilians were trapped under the rubble, and video footage showed the Syrian Civil Defence searching for the missing.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, some of the injuries were so severe that the death toll was expected to rise.
The incident occured at 15:00:00 local time.
The victims were named as:
Family members
(2)
Family members
(4)
Adult
female
mother of the three siblings
killed
The victims were named as:
Age unknown
[Abu Adnan], blacksmith
killed
Age unknown
male
[Abu Mahmoud], his body was charred
killed
Child
died of wounds on the 28th
killed
