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(Previous Incident Codes: R1845 RS1976 )
Local media reported that three civilians died and several more were wounded in an alleged Russian airstrike on the al Sheikh Ali village in Al Atarib district, Aleppo.
On March 16th, Baladi reported: “he cities and towns of Al-Atareb, Sheikh Ali, Babis, Maarat al-Atareb, Abyan Samaan and Kfarkermin were heavily shelled by the Russian air force. Five civilians, mostly children and women, were killed in the areas of Sheikh Ali and Abyan Samaan.”
According to the civil defence in Aleppo, “three civilians were killed and others were wounded by aerial bombardment of the village of Sheikh Ali in the western part of Aleppo on Thursday afternoon [March 16th]”.
Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of al Sheikh Ali village in Al Atarib district, Aleppo (الأتارب الشيخ علي ), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.09736, 36.91384. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.