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(Previous Incident Codes: R2973RS3180)
Between three and four civilians were killed, including a 20 day old baby, and dozens more were wounded in airstrikes on Arbeen, local media reported. Sources blamed both Russia and the Syrian regime for the raids.
A child was trapped under the rubble for an extended period of time due to the collapse of a residential building in the vicinity.
There were as many as 11 airstrikes, and the raid allegedly occurred in the morning.
According to @Damaskiagency, “three civilians, including a girl and her mother, were killed in airstrikes by Assad and Russian forces”.
The Smart News Agency put the death toll at four including one child.
On March 6th, Erbeencity2014 noted “two air raids by Russian warplanes targeting residential neighborhoods in the city, bringing the total number of raids to 11 air strikes since the morning until the present moment”.
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Arbeen (عربين), for which the generic coordinates are: 33.538143, 36.364331. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.