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(Previous Incident Codes: R3567a RS3780 )
Local sources reported that a woman and a child were injured in alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on the city of Al-Lataminah in the northern Hama countryside on June 9th, 2019.
According to a @HalabTodayTV correspondent, “a woman and her child were wounded as a result of an airstrike by the regime’s air force on the city of Al-Lataminah in the northern Hama countryside.” @MasarPressNet also reported that a woman and her child had been injured.
Smart News Agency, however, reported that the victims were a woman and her granddaughter, adding that the victims were taken to a hospital for treatment.
@aeinnews wrote that “the Syrian regime’s warplanes launch intense raids on the city of Al-Lataminah in the northern countryside of Hama, central Syria, this evening.”
@NagiNajjar tweeted: “58 airstrikes by the regime and the Russians with missiles, barrel bombs and cluster bombs on the areas of the northern Hama countryside”, including Al-Lataminah.
@syrian191124 reported that “Russian warplanes target the towns of Kafar Zeita and Al-Lataminah in the northern Hama countryside.”
While many sources pointed to the Syrian regime as the responsible belligerent, @syrian191124 blamed Russian airstrikes and @NagiNajjar, Smart News Agency and Shaam News Network reported both the Syrian regime and Russian forces as responsible.
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Al-Lataminah (اللطامنة), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.326627, 36.621489. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.