Airwars assessment
Between three and six civilians including women and children died and up to 12 more were wounded in airstrikes on al Qaterji, local media reported. The victims included the 10-year-old child who later died from injuries sustained in the attack. His brother, Omran Daqmeesh, was also wounded when the strike hit the family home – with the image of the wounded child became a global symbol of the extraordinary dangers facing civilians in Syria.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on August 20th, “the child Ali Daqmeesh – who is the brother of Omran Daqmeesh (who became the subject of much media exposure) – died following the wound he had suffered when warplanes bombed al-Qaterji neighbourhood in Aleppo city three days ago, which back then killed four civilians and wounded several others”.
LCCSY and Jisrtv blamed Russia, with the latter source putting the death toll at six.
However, the Syrian Network for Human Rights and Al Hadath said that the regime was responsible.
According to Baladi, helicopters dropped explosive barrels on the neighbourhood.
Halab Today was among a number of sources that didn’t identify the culprit. It did however name 3 fatalities.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
- Ali Daqmeesh 10 years old male killed
- Shehadeh Al-Aisa 82 years old named by Halab Today killed
- Dalal Al-Essa 50 years old named by Halab Today killed
- Sayf al-Din al-Ali 8 years old named by Halab Today killed
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Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
On August 17th 2016, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation reported that, "Russian bombers Su-34 took off from Hamedan airbase (Islamic Republic of Iran) with full fragmentation bomb charge and made an airstrike on ISIS terrorist facilities in the Deir ez-Zor province. As a result, 2 command centres and large ISIS field training camps near the Deir ez-Zor city were destroyed, over 150 militants (with foreign mercenaries among them) were eliminated."