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(Previous Incident Codes: R3104RS3309)
Between four to seven civilians including children were injured in an alleged Russian forces airstrike on Kafrouma Village in Southern Idlib, March 19th, 2018.
Smart News Agency, Micro Syria and Step News Agency blamed Russian forces warplanes for the strike and civilian harm.
Smart News agency reported that “Warplanes carried out two raids with high-explosive rockets on the outskirts of the village (Kafrouma). Consequently, three children and a young man were injured and taken to a nearby hospital”.
Microsyria also put the wounded toll at four, however, the Step News Agency said that seven civilians were wounded.
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Kafarouma (كفرومة), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.6347489, 36.6258001. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.