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Up to 30 civilians including 11 children died in airstrikies on Souran, Al-Lataminah, according to local media – though sources were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Syrian regime.
According to Roiraqro and Wesal_TV 10 people from the same family died when their car was hit by a strike. The sources didn’t apportion blame.
However, Orient pointed to regime warplanes, adding that most of the victims were children and women.
According to the pro-Assad website Albosleh, “warplanes targeted a number of terrorist cars on the Tayba Al-imam, Halfaya and Al-Lataminah roads and killed most of the terrorists”.
But SND attributed the strike to Russia, reporting that “Russian warplanes targeted buses carrying people from the city to the town of Al-Lataminah Soran, killing seven civilians, including children, and wounded several others”.
But in a subsequent report, SND appeared to point towards the regime, saying that “14 civilians were killed and others were injured, all from the same family, by regime warplanes in several raids on vehicles carrying people who werre fleeing from Soran town toward safer areas on the road to Al-Lataminah”.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights, also blaming the regime, put the death toll at 14 including 11 children and two women.
However, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the death toll climbed as high as 30 including 10 children and six women.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Souran, for which the generic coordinates are: 35.2906196, 36.7492737. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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A graphic photograph of one of the deceased civilian children in Souran - the human cost of alleged warplane shelling (via Orient) -
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Charred boned and body parts - the impact of alleged warplane shelling on Souran (via Orient)
Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia has not reported any strikes between September 1st – 30th 2016.