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(Previous Incident Codes: R2628RS2811)
Several civilians were injured by intense aerial shelling of Abu Mahala, Hama, local media reported. All sources blamed Russia.
While no reports mentioned the exact number of injured, sources merely reported that a number of civilians were left wounded.
The strikes were reportedly part of a larger shelling that day. Masar Press News reported “more than 65 raids carried out by Russian airliners on Al Hamra and Al-Sa’an areas since the morning.”
Jsirtv mentioned the use of napalm, reporting that “Russian fighter jets launched dozens of air strikes with burning napalm and rockets on the villages of Abu Mahala and Jib al-Sukkar in Nahariya, Al-Harrajan, Shakusiya and Al-jeneina, resulting in civilian casualties.”
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Abu Mahala village in Al Hamra district (ابومحالة), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.473428, 37.308068. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.