Civilian Casualties

Civilian Casualties

Incident Code

RS1272

Incident date

September 16, 2016

Location

تلبيسة, Talbisah, Homs, Syria

Geolocation

34.8420186, 36.711974 Note: The accuracy of this location is to Town level. Continue to map

Airwars assessment

Five named civilians including one child and a woman died and up to eight more were wounded in alleged Russian or Assad regime air and artillery strikes on Talbissa, Homs, according to sources on the ground.

Syria News Desk reported that “three young men were killed and five others wounded today after cluster bombs dropped by Russian warplanes exploded yesterday [Sept 16th] on Talbissa’s neighbourhoods. This led to fires, and fire fighting teams rushed to the scene.”

However, the Smart News Agency blamed regime artillery for the death of four civilians and wounding of eight more.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights also pointed to the regime, reporting that a child and a woman died in an artillery bombardment.

Jisrtv reported that five people died as a result of “artillery fire and air strikes with phosphorus bombs”.

Step News Agency named five victims, listed below.

The local time of the incident is unknown.

The victims were named as:

Family members (2)

Mohammed Mahmoud Al Dakkah
Age unknown male killed
Aiman Mahmoud Al Dakkah
Age unknown male killed

The victims were named as:

Alaa Abdel-Moaain Kasab
10 years old male killed
Kholoud Asim al-‘Allus
Age unknown female killed
Alaa Bajaqh
Age unknown male killed

Geolocation notes

Reports of the incident mention the town of Talbisah (تلبيسة), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.8420186, 36.711974. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.

Summary

  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    5
  • (1 child1 woman3 men)
  • Civilians reported injured
    3–8
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected belligerents
    Russian Military, Syrian Regime

Sources (23) [ collapse]

Media
from sources (3) [ collapse]

  • Possibly one of the victims of the alleged Russian or Syrian airstrikes targeting Talbissah, Homs. There is however no source behind this image.
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    One of the victims of the alleged Russian or Syrian airstrikes targeting al-Tabissah, Homs (via Zamanalwasl)
  • Alleged Russian or Syrian airstrikes on al-Tabissah, Homs (via JsirTV twitter)

Russian Military Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Russian Military
  • Russian Military position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Original strike reports

Russian Military

Russia has not reported any strikes between September 1st – 30th 2016.

Syrian Regime Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Syrian Regime
  • Syrian Regime position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Summary

  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    5
  • (1 child1 woman3 men)
  • Civilians reported injured
    3–8
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected belligerents
    Russian Military, Syrian Regime

Sources (23) [ collapse]