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(Previous Incident Code: R321)
Eight to nine civilians including two women and four children were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Al Bab.
SNN reported that alleged Russian warplanes shelled the residential houses northwest of Al Bab city in eastern Aleppo suburbs, under the control of ISIL.
The IS agency Al A’maq also reported on the incident, stating that nine people were killed and 15 injured – mostly women and children, but they did not specify who was responsible. And Halab News claimed regime helicopters were responsible, after dropping barrel bombs on the city.
Among the dead Alaan TV named “four members of the family of Ahmed Abdullah Al Sha’aban including two children.”
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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.