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(Previous Incident Code: R3180)
Warplanes launched an attack on agricultural areas near the city of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, local sources reported.
Most reports cited the sole involvement of Russian forces, however, Idlib24 said both Russian and Syrian planes were in the area.
No specific casualty figures were given for Khan Sheikhoun, though according to the Smart News Agency, “Russian aircraft launched heavy air strikes causing the fall of martyrs and wounded in the cities and towns of Ariha and Khan Sheikoun and Urma Al Jouz and Al Qanba and Kafr Lata and Hazarin and Hamdiyah and Ma’aret Horma in the southern countryside and the city of Jisr al-Shughour in the western countryside”.
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Reports of the incident mention the city of Khan Sheikhoun (خان شيخون), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.440813, 36.6493607. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.