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(Previous Incident Code: R3137)
Thirteen civilians were reportedly killed in alleged Russian airstrikes in Hajin city on March 27th, 2018, according to local sources.
SyriaTV reported that “13 civilians were killed and others injured Tuesday [March 27, 2018] in a town under the control of the Islamic State in the eastern suburb of Deir Ezzor, as a result of airstrikes likely to be Russian warplanes.”
According to SyriaTV, “eight airstrikes targeted the town’s mosque, a state-run field hospital and the Hajin school, as well as the former sheep market and the eastern outskirts of the city.”
Smart News Agency also wrote that 13 civilians had been killed in a likely Russian airstrike.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Hajin (هجين), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.6897222, 40.83. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.