Geolocation
Airwars assessment
One to two civilians were injured by alleged Russian airstrikes on a farm in the village of Fiqad, Aleppo countryside, on October 26th, 2019, according to local sources.
The Smart News agency reported: “A civilian was injured on Saturday by Russian air strikes on a village west of Aleppo in northern Syria .
Local activists told ‘Aleppo Gate’ (one of the SMART media projects) that a Russian warplane “targeted the houses of civilians in a village led by a missile, which resulted in the injury of a civilian was taken to a nearby hospital.”
The Syrian Civil Defence reported that “a civilian was injured due to the targeting of a farm on the outskirts of Taqad town in Aleppo countryside with missiles directed by warplanes this morning, causing heavy material damage to civilian property”.
Tweets posted by @blaas083 and @ZaitunAgency also referred to civilians plural as being injured but did not give a specific number. @SY_plus reported that two civilians were injured.
Images posted by @OGNreports showed rubble and destruction caused by the strikes as well as animals that were injured.
@hadi1sy reported that two strikes were carried out on the town.
All sources that reported on the incident attributed the strikes to Russia.
The incident occured in the morning.
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Tiqad village (تقاد), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.199203, 36.87054. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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The farm in Fiqad village that was damaged by an alleged Russian airstrike on October 26th, 2019 (via SCD on Facebook).
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Caption translation: Damage caused by Russian occupation warjet airstrikes on Taqeed in western rural Aleppo this morning (Image posted by @OGNreports)
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Caption translation: Damage caused by Russian occupation warjet airstrikes on Taqeed in western rural Aleppo this morning (Image posted by @OGNreports)
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Caption translation: Damage caused by Russian occupation warjet airstrikes on Taqeed in western rural Aleppo this morning (Image posted by @OGNreports)
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Caption translation: Damage caused by Russian occupation warjet airstrikes on Taqeed in western rural Aleppo this morning (Image posted by @OGNreports)