(Previous Incident Code: RS1713)

Between seven and 12 civilians including children and women died and dozens more were wounded in air or artillery strikes on Aleppo’s Al Shi’ar neighbourhood, according to sources on the ground. Reports were conflicted as to whether Russia or the regime caused the civilian harm, though multiple reports mentioned the use of cluster bombs and missiles. Additionally, there were claims that explosive barrels had been dropped from helicopters.

The lowest death count was given as seven by the Syrian Network for Human Rights, who blamed “government warplanes and its allies”.

@Mamoun_sy R said that both Russia and Assad were to blame, while Al Jazeera said that the area was subjected to “heavy artillery shelling” but didn’t identify the culprit.

However, the majority of other sources attributed the event to Russia.

According to Qasioun, “10 civilians were killed and more than 20 were wounded, some of them seriously wounded in air strikes by Russian air force fighter jets on residential buildings in the Al-Sha’ar district of Aleppo. Civil defense teams are still removing survivors from the rubble”.

Ara, also pointing to Moscow, said that “Russian warplanes targeted the neighbourhood with a number of concussion rockets which hit civilian houses…several buildings collapsed over the heads of their inhabitants.”