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Airwars Assessment
At least one civilian was killed and five others were injured in alleged Russian or regime strikes on Tafas on July 29, 2021.
@tommycats4 tweeted that “one person was killed and a number of wounded in the city of Tafas, west of Daraa, as a result of artillery shelling on the city by the Assad regime militia”. @Step_Agency also reported “a civilian was killed and a number of wounded” from the bombing.
According to a correspondent from Dara’a News, “at least five people were wounded, as a result of the bombing of residential neighborhoods in the city of Tafas”.
A tweet from @omar_alharir also identified civilians as being injured and in order to treat the injured, “the city hospital appealed to donate blood”.
The majority of sources that reported on the incident attributed the strikes to the regime. However, Syrian Civil Defense identified both Russia and the regime as carrying out strikes across Dara’a.
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Tafas (انخل), for which the generic coordinates are: 32.735089, 36.067813. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.