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(Previous Incident Codes: R2525RS2682)
As many as three people were killed in shelling on a displaced persons camp and Mosque in Sebikhan in Sabikhan desert, according to local media. One source blamed the Syrian regime for the airstrikes, however the others blamed “renewed Russian shelling”.
Step News Agency reported that there were unspecified numbers of dead and wounded.
Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that “Syrian regime warplanes fired missiles on a mosque in Sbaikhan city in Deir Ez-Zour governorate eastern suburbs, partially damaging its building and furniture, on November 5, 2017.” They did not report any civilian casualties.
The Observatory and @EuphratesPost also reported that there was no civilian harm.
The final source reported on the deaths of three civilians in the raid. They reported Russia as culpable.
One woman was reported to have been killed by @mohamad_mt.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Sebikhan (صبيخان), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.85305, 40.59987. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.