Geolocation
Airwars assessment
Eight named civilians were killed and a number injured in a reported Russian night-time airstrike at Hraytan, near Aleppo.
The White Helmets – whose teams worked through the night to retrieve the dead and injured, reported: “Civil Defence team pulls out seven martyrs and several injured following Russian bombardement with vacuum missiles.“
Hraytan City, an opposition site, later published the names of eight people it said had died in the attack.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Summary
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Media
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Rescuers at Hraytan October 27th (via Shaam News Network)
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The work to remove the martyrs from under the rubble following the targeting of Russian planes of the neighbourhoods of the town of Hraytan with several raids. (via SNN)
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The work to remove the martyrs from under the rubble following the targeting of Russian planes of the neighbourhoods of the town of Hraytan with several raids. (via SNN)
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one of the children wounded in the Russian strikes on the city (via Hretan facebook)
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Hraytan (حريتان), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.287032, 37.08332. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Unknown Assessment:
Original strike reports
The Russian Defence Ministry has confirmed carrying out airstrikes in Aleppo governorate on October 27th-28th 2015: “For 24 hours, aircraft of the Russian air group in the Syrian Arab Republic have performed 71 combat sorties engaging 118 terrorist objects in the Idlib, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, Damascus and Lattakia provinces…