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(Previous Incident Codes: R1678RS1800)
One or two civilians were killed, and a minimum of 10 were wounded, in raids on Ain Fijeh. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame the raids, with most blaming the Syrian regime, and some attributing blame to Russia.
Only two sources mentioned the death of a civilian in Ain Fijeh.
One source – Sky News Arabia – reported the death of a civilian, however, this source is the same report as from the previous incident – RS1799 – where it stated: “A civilian was also killed and others were injured, including a civil defence volunteer, following the bombing of Syrian warplanes on the villages of Basima, Dir Muqrin and Ayn al-Fijah”.
Despite this, another single source – @FreeArmyNews – reported that “heavy shelling today resulted in the death of two and the injury of at least 10 civilians”.
In a similar fashion to the previous incident in Basima – RS1799- it was reported that there were as many as eight raids with missiles, cluster bombs, artillery, explosive barrel bombs and “dozens of rockets”.
This allegedly led to extensive material destruction including the cities water-pipes.
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Ain Fijeh (عين الفيجة), for which the generic coordinates are: 33.616058, 36.179599. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.