Airwars assessment
As many as 25 people from one family – named as the Eid Kabis family – died including eight children and two or three women and dozens more were wounded in an airstrike on Aleppo’s Al Marja neighbourhood. All but one source alleged that Russia carried out the strike.
According to Madar Daily, “14 members of a family were killed in a Russian air strike on the Marjah district of Aleppo, including two six-week-olds and six children under the age of eight.”
Ara News reported that “the field activist, Ali Jaafar, from the city of Aleppo told Ara that ‘Russian warplanes committed a terrible massacre in the Marjah neighbourhood of Aleppo after it was hit by a concussion missile. This caused the death of 15 people with many more wounded, including women and children’.”
Micro Syria put the death toll as high as 25, reporting that “Russian shelling targeted a building containing ten families.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights didn’t apportion blame, but stated that 13 people died including 10 children, “the majority from the same family”.
Only the Syrian Network for Human Rights pointed towards regime involvement, referring to “government warplanes” in one post and then “government warplanes and its allies” in a subsequent report.
Halab News named 13 victims, and blamed Russia for their deaths.These victims were also named by several other sources.
Multiple reports published distressing images of the dead children – and footage of their funeral.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (11)
- Khaled Mohammad Eid Kabis 25 years old male killed
- Amina Mohammad Eid Kabis 8 years old killed
- Nadia Mohamamd Eid Kabid 4 years old killed
- Amina Firas Kabis 7 years old killed
- Tima Firas Kabis 5 years old killed
- Amar Firas Kabis 2 years old killed
- Mohamamd eid Firas Kabis 3 years old male killed
- The baby Fatima al Zahra Firas Kabis 2 months old years old killed
- Aysha Ahmad Kabis 17 years old female killed
- The baby Hasan Yusuf Kabis 2 months old years old killed
- Hamouda Hussein Kabis 25 years old killed
- Lajina Amer Jamal 20 years old killed
- Turki Arab 60 years old killed
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Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia has not reported any strikes between October 1st – 19th 2016.