Airwars assessment
Up to 12 civilians including three to four children and two women were killed and dozens more injured in alleged airstrikes and an artillery bombardment on Zamalka, according to multiple sources – though reports are conflicted as to whether Russian or Assad regime forces were responsible for the deaths.
Shaam News initially reported that four non-combatants were killed and 20 injured – mostly women and children – in an alleged Russian airstrike. They said the aircraft targeted different district of Zamalka with vacuum missiles, leading to widespread destruction of civilian property, and added that the aerial bombardment was followed by heavy artillery shelling. A subsequent report stated that the number killed had risen to more than seven.
The White Helmets put the initial number killed at seven (but said it was likely to rise) including two children with dozens wounded. They did not say who was responsible, referring to “air raids by warplanes and artillery, heavy mortars and field artillery land – surface missiles in conjunction with the surveillance planes circling the skies.” The White Helmets added that two ambulances were hit following the bombing and that two of their own members were injured.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four children and two women were killed – with tens of other injured (again, mostly women and children). It produced two reports. The first blamed the regime for the “aerial bombardment and shelling”, but the second said Russian warplanes killed six, including three children, and wounded dozens more.
But the Syrian Network for Human Rights said Assad regime warplanes had fired several missiles near two White Helmets ambulances.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (3)
- Mohammad Saleh al-Goush Adult male killed
- Osamah Basheer al-Ghoush Adult male killed
- Mohammad Bashar al-Ghoush Child male killed
Family members (2)
- Dia al-Sheikh Adult male killed
- Wasef al-Sheikh Adult male killed
- Abd al-Rahman Gazal Adult male killed
- Bilal Shams Adult male killed
- Hasan Anwar Zaino aka Abu Isshak Adult male was killed after the Russians targeted an ambulance on the road linking Hazza and Zamalka killed
- Louay Hassan Moheialdein Child male killed
- Lana Hassan Mohi al-Dein Child female killed
- Mohammad Muhiye Al Deen Adult male the White Helmets reported that two people died one week later from injuries sustained in the strike killed
- A’isha Al Baka’i Age unknown the White Helmets reported that two people died one week later from injuries sustained in the strike killed
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Russian Armed Forces Assessment:
Original strike reports
In its report for military actions on January 11 2016, the Kremlin reports carrying out strikes in Damascus governorate: “In the course of 10 days of the year 2016, the Russian aircraft have performed 311 combat sorties engaging 1097 objects in the Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Damascus, Deir ez-Zor, Hasakah, Daraa, and Raqqah provinces.“