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(Previous Incident Codes: R3340RS3549)
One child, most local sources say a girl, was injured in alleged Russian forces or Syrian regime airstrikes on Kafr Ain in Idlib on September 8th, 2018.
@maraya404 tweeted “A child girl was injured in a raid by the Assad regime, on Kafr Ain, south of Idlib.”
@IdlibPlus said that barrel bombs were used in the attack “A child was injured as a result of helicopters targeting the Kafr Ain village in the southern countryside of Idlib, with barrel bombs.”
@HadiAlabdallah and Shaam Network blamed Russia or Russia jointly with the Syrian regime for the incident.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Kafr Ain (كفر عين), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.444854, 36.566568. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.