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Airwars assessment
A least one civilian, a 17 year old girl, was killed and one to two others were injured in alleged Russian or regime strikes on Farika village on September 2, 2021.
According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, a woman named Fatimah Adnan Hussein was killed while other civilians were injured in Syrian regime forces’ artillery shelling of Farika village.
Syrian Civil Defense added that Fatima had only been married for two months and when she was killed she was visiting with her family for the last time. @anasanas84 reported that she was only 17 years old at the time she was killed.
@Almohrar1 also identified that a young man was injured by the artillery shelling and Baladi News added that the injury of the civilian was moderate. However, Al-Jazeera correspondent in Syria provided information of “the injury of a number of civilians” but did not say how many while Xeber 24 News put the number of injuries at two.
Media activist Ibrahim Khatib said, in an interview with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, that “the regime forces targeted, this Thursday afternoon, a residential house in the village of Fraika, west of Idlib governorate, with an artillery shell, which led to the killing of a woman who had been married for only two months”.
The majority of sources attributed the strikes to the Syrian regime. However, the Syrian Civil Defense blamed both the regime and Russia for launching the shells that killed the civilian Fatima and @Almohrar1 assigned responsibility to Russia.
The incident occured in the afternoon.
The victims were named as:
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Damage caused by strikes on Al Farika on September 2, 2021. (Image posted by Syrian Network for Human Rights)
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White Helmets search for survivors following strikes on Al Farika on September 2, 2021. (Image posted by Syrian Civil Defense)
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Damage caused by strikes on Al Farika on September 2, 2021. (Image posted by Syrian Civil Defense)
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Strikes on Al Farika on September 2, 2021. (Image posted by Syrian Civil Defense)
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Damage caused by strikes on Al Farika on September 2, 2021. (Image posted by Syrian Civil Defense)
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Damage caused by strikes on Al Farika on September 2, 2021. (Image posted by @anasanas84)
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White Helmets search for survivors following strikes on Al Farika on September 2, 2021. (Image posted by @anasanas84)
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Strikes on Al Farika on September 2, 2021. (Image posted by @Almohrar1)
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Farika (فريكة), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.758889, 36.359167. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.