(Previous Incident Codes: R3087 RS3292 )

Three civilians including two children reportedly from the same family were killed in an alleged Russian or Syrian regime artillery strike on March 17th, 2018 on Arbeen city, according to local media.

Enab Baladi, @IndependentSyri  and @SYR_REV_NEWS blamed the Syrian regime, while Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCCSY) and @mohammadezzomzd blamed Russia.

LCCSY reported that “martyrs and wounded civilians as a result of raids by the Russian warplanes on the cities and towns of Arbeen, Kafar Batna, Zamalka and Ein Tarma in the besieged Eastern Ghouta”.

According to @mohammadezzomzd, the three victims belonged to one family; a mother and her two children. The twitter account said: “Russian shelling tore apart the whole family of a mother and her children”.