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(Previous Incident Codes: R2374RS2524)
On Sept 25th Euphrates Post reported: “The martyrdom of Haj Mukhlaf Khalaf Al-Ahmad from the village of Al-Shmitiya, from the wounds he sustained as a result of an air strike that targeted the village a few days ago”.
This victim was also named by the Violations Documentation Centre, along with a second victim Mekhlef al Hamadi.
There were also reports that ISIS had downed a regime helicopter in Shumita around Sept 18th, though Euphrates Post said these were “completely untrue”.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Shumita village (قريه الشميطية ), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.4710166, 39.9351239. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.