(Previous Incident Code: R1623)

On December 6, 2016, eight civilians – including six children – were reportedly killed in alleged Russian or Syrian regime raids on on Al-Arbaeen Street and Maarat Al Nisrin roundabout in the city of Idlib, in northwestern Syria, according to sources on the ground.

Misrennabd reported that there had been “four martyrs and 20 wounded as a result of four raids by the Russian air force that targeted different neighborhoods of Idlib”.

Halab News named eight civilians from two families, killed “following raids by the Russian and Assad enemies on the city of Idlib”. A man named Hassan Hamadi al-Rashid was killed alongside four children, two girls named Waqaa Hassan Hamadi and Maryam Hassan Hamadi and two boys named Mohammad Hassan Hamadi and Hamdo Hassan Hamadi.

A woman described as the wife of Mohammad al-Masri was reportedly killed in the incident alongside her two young sons.

In line with Airwars’ methodology, the minimum number of civilians recorded as killed is eight, as eight civilians were identified as killed.