(Previous Incident Codes: R610RS694)

A pregnant woman was killed and at least 12 civilians injured, most of them children, in airstrikes on Jisr al-Shughour, according to local sources. Two alleged that Russia was responsible. However a third (the Syrian Network for Human Rights) blamed the Syrian regime.

Shaam News reported that Russian warplanes carried out air raids targeting the Christian quarter (near the church) of the town in what they said was a “clear break of the truce“. Activists told the Network that there were three strikes by missiles, causing a severe explosion which led to the death of Farah A’bbadi and the fetus she was carrying. It added that more than 20 other civilians were wounded.

Baladi reported: “Our correspondent reported that there was an air raid by Russian planes in the centre of the town of Jisr al-Shughour which is inhabited by thousands of IDPs and minutes later they returned with cluster bombs which killed a woman and her baby and more than 12 civilians were injured most of them children some of them in a critical condition.”

However, according to a news brief by the Syrian Network for Human Rights the regime was responsible for the incident: “at least 2 victims (a woman and her baby) died in regime warplanes missiles fired on Jisr Jisr al-Shughour city in Idlib governorate, February 28, 2016.”

In addition to the woman and her unborn child, Idlib Network News (who didn’t identify the warplanes responsible) and VDC named 12 injured civilians.