Airwars assessment
News media and casualty recorders reported that between 25 and 26 civilians were killed including eight children and seven women – and more than a dozen injured – in airstrikes targeting a market where people were queuing to buy heating fuel.
It remains unclear whether the Assad regime or Russian forces were responsible for the attack.
According to The White Helmets – which came to the aid of casualties – there were three raids, with more than one missile strike. Both The White Helmets and Shaam News Network reported that at least ten non-combatants were killed as a result of Russian airstrikes and predicted that the death toll would rise. Severe damage was caused by fires in several shops.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said the death toll rose to 26 and initially blamed the regime. However, following an investigation, it declared that Russia was responsible. Radio Al Kul said the city had come under attack from both Russian airstrikes and “regime bombing with rockets and heavy artillery.” But the opposition station insisted the attack on the market was the work of Russian aircraft.
The Violations Documentation Centre published 25 victims by names.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (2)
- Rateb Basheer al-Nisreen Adult male killed
- Mohammad Natheer al-Nisreen Adult male killed
Family members (2)
- Taghreed Abdul Naser Taha Child female killed
- Mohammad Abdul Naser Taha Child male killed
Family members (3)
- Khawla Yousef Ameen Adult female killed
- Ghusoun Hasan Ameen Adult female
- Hadiye Yousef Ameen Adult female killed
Family members (2)
- Husam Yousef al-Nisreen Child male killed
- Redwan Basheer al-Nisreen Adult male killed
Family members (2)
- Hana al-Sayed Adult female killed
- Rafaela Nadam Adult female killed
- Mohammad Ibraheem Arbour Child male killed
- Muhannad Subhi Khebiye Child male killed
- Mahmoud Ihsan al-Jaje Adult male killed
- Bilal Tayseer Subhiye Child male killed
- Ghaydaa Haytham Seesan Adult female killed
- Ahmad Merie Nafeest Adult male killed
- Waleed Jamal al-Sabbagh Adult male killed
- Hani Omar Hanan Adult male killed
- Aamer Omar Urabi Adult male killed
- Yaser Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh Bakri Adult male killed
- Jalapa Bakkar Adult female killed
- Fadi Nadam Child male killed
- Mohammad al-Sleek Child male killed
- Khaleel Badran Adult male killed
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Unknown Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia confirms in its report covering November 6th-9th 2015 carrying out strikes in Damascus governorate: “Near Jebel-Mgar mountain (Damascus province), an ammunition depot with improvised unguided rockets of the ISIS illegal armed group was destroyed. This object regularly provided militants with ammunition used for constant bombardment of residential areas of Damascus.”