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(Previous Incident Codes: R3368RS3579)
12-year-old girl Mariam Mahmoud Hassan Rahhal was reported killed in alleged Russian or Syrian regime artillery strikes on Kfar Zeita, north-east of Souran in the northern suburb of Hama. Two other civilians were wounded, whom according to some sources, were children as well.
Smart News Agency reported “the killing of a girl and wounding two others in artillery shelling by Russian forces on the town of Kafr Zeita, north of Hama, from their location in the village of Kobeibat Huda.”
Enab Baladi reported a “number of injured civilians”, whereas other sources such as Smart News Agency reported specifically two injured civilians. According to the Syrian Civil Defence, the two injured victims were also children.
Some local sources blamed Russian forces, while other sources blamed the Syrian regime.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Kafar Zeita (كفرزيتا), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.3747033, 36.5923691. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.