(Previous Incident Codes: R1576bRS1720)

Local media named six people killed in an alleged Russian or Assad regime air or artillery strike in Kafr Zita – though most sources said that the victims were fighters. According to several reports.

The Step News Agency reported that “Russian fighter jets renewed their bombardment of areas of Hama north Tuesday evening 29th of November with several air strikes, one of them targeting a base belonging to the rebels in Al Issa army in Kafr Zita which led to the killing of seven people among them the commander of the artillery regiment in al Izza  Army, Tariq Kattab”.

The Syrian Observatory also said the victims were “mostly fighters” – but blamed “shelling by the regime forces and warplanes on the [rebels’] headquarters  in Kafr Zita”.

According to Baladi and other sources an ambulance was hit in the strike, “causing injury to the driver and facilities and the burning of the car completely”.