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(Previous Incident Code: R1356)
One or two civilians including a woman and her child died and an unspecified number more were wounded in an airstrike on Ma’arzita, according to sources on the ground – though it was unclear whether Russia or the Syrian regime were to blame.
Intensive strikes were reported in the area, with sources reporting that both the regime and Russia had carried out actions.
Most reports put the death toll in Ma’arzita at one. Both the Step News Agency and @syriapost1 said that a woman had died.
@HamahNow reported “the martyrdom of a woman and her child from Halfaya in the countryside of Hama following a bombing by military aircraft on Ma’arzita today [Oct 20th]”.
Radio AlKul mentioned the use of “surface missiles” in their reporting of the incident.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Ma’arzita, for which the generic coordinates are: 35.555418, 36.573707. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.