Geolocation
Airwars assessment
In a major casualty event, up to 25 civilians including as many as 16 children died and dozens more were wounded in alleged Russian airstrikes on Al Atarib in Aleppo according to local media. Many sources – who published extremely graphic mages of victims – didn’t identify the warplanes responsible, however, a large number pointed towards Russia.
According to Baladi, “Russian warplanes carried out raids with missiles which struck the city neighbourhood, killing 15 civilians at the initial death toll and wounding 30 more – the majority are women and children. The civil defense are still working to rescue the wounded and take them to hospitals and medical points in the area.”
A video posted by Thiqa, also blaming Russia, said that there were four strikes, destroying more than six houses and killing nine children.
Arabstoday put the child death toll even higher, at 16, reporting that three locations in the city center were struck including “the main road”.
Syria News Desk put the death toll as high as 25. The source also blamed Russia. It reported: “A medic Muhannad Mohammed, for Office news Syria, said Russian warplanes carried out four raids with rockets stereochemistry and cluster on the homes of civilians amid Alotarb, killing 20 civilians, including nine children, and wounding more than 15 others.”
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
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The victims were named as:
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Al Atarib (الأتارب), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.1375975, 36.8284035. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Summary
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Bloodied bodies on the streets of Al Atarib - the consequences of suspected Russian shelling (via Jisrtv) -
Local people in distress in Al Atarib, looking on at a dead civilian - the impact of suspected Russian attacks (via Arabstoday)
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Unknown Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia has not reported any strikes between July 29th – 31st 2016.