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(Previous Incident Codes: R2281aRS2426)
One civilian, Mousa ‘Abd al-Salam al-Kharabah, was killed in an airstrike on the Hatla crossing in Deir Ezzor governorate on September 11th 2017, according to local media. It is unclear who was responsible for the strikes. The Violation Documentation Centre in Syria blamed the ‘Syrian government and its militias’, but does not directly identify the belligerent involved.
Russian forces, the Syrian regime’s forces and other militias were reportedly active in the area at the time.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Hatla Crossing ( معبار حطلة ), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.34169, 40.19897. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.