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Airwars assessment
Up to 20 civilians including three children died and as many as dozens more were wounded in air and artillery strikes on a convoy or vehicles or a bus carrying civilians on the al Ramousah road south of the city of Aleppo. It was unclear who was responsible for the event: many sources blamed Russia, though several others pointed to both Russia and the Syrian regime.
Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory, told AFF that it was unknown whether Russia or regime warplanes were responsible. Another source, @AKslasearNews, added that there had been “hundreds” of helicopter and warplane raids on both al Ramousah and Tareeq al-Bab within hours. The Shaam News Network attributed the event to both Russian and Assad forces, citing air and artillery strikes.
The lowest death count was given as 14 by the Syrian Network for Human Rights, who blamed Russia. Other sources put the number killed as high as 20, with Syria News Desk reporting that a “convoy” was struck.
According to Shahed-ayan, “activists reported the martyrdom of 17 people after warplanes targeted a bus carrying them on the road to al Ramousah, south of Aleppo, on Tuesday, August 16. This coincided with heavy artillery shelling by the regime.”
Halab News named 9 victims and also listed eight unknown civilians.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
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Mohammad Bashir Gul, killed in an alleged Russian and Syrian Regime raid. (via, Halab News) -
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Imran Mohammad Gul, killed in an alleged Russian and Syrian Regime raid. (via, Halab News) -
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Abdulrahman Mohammad Gul, killed in an alleged Russian and Syrian Regime raid. (via, Halab News) -
Mohammed Dakmeh, killed in an alleged Russian and Syrian Regime raid. (via, Halab News)
Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
On August 16th 2016, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation reported that,"Tu-22M3 long-range bombers and Su-34 tactical bombers took off from the “Hamedan” airbase (the Islamic Republic of Iran) and carried out a concentrated airstrike on objects of the ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist groupings in the provinces of Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor and Idlib. As a result, the strikes have eliminated 5 large ammunition depots with armament, munitions and fuel, training camps of militants near Serakab, Al-Ghab, Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor cities, 3 control centres of militants near the cities Jafra and Deir ez-Zor as well as a significant number of militants. Ammunition depots, training camps and control centres destroyed by the bombing had been used for support of militant groupings near Aleppo."