Geolocation
Airwars assessment
A girl was seriously wounded in an alleged Russian and Syrian regime raid on Sarqib, Aleppo. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame, some attributing responsibility to Russia and others the Syrian regime.
According to a source the girl was trapped under the rubble for eight hours. She died of her wounds on the 27th.
There are no other details at this time.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Summary
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Media
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Fatima al-Korini, killed in an alleged Russian and Syrian regime raid on Sarqib, 11th December 2016. (via @SN4HR) -
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Fatima al-Korini, killed in an alleged Russian and Syrian regime raid on Sarqib, 11th December 2016. (via EMC)
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the city of Sarqib, for which the generic coordinates are: 35.859101, 36.797731. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia has not reported any specific strikes between December 1st – 31st 2016.
On 6 January 2017, Russia, however, reported: “Since November 8, 2016, the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the large ASW ship Severomorsk, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet, has been fulfilling counterterrorist missions on the territory of Syria”, adding that ”in the course of two months of their participation in the combat actions, naval aviation pilots have carried out 420 combat sorties, 117 of them were night ones.”