(Previous Incident Codes: R3991RS4237)

As many as seven civilians, including a woman, five children and a man, were killed in alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on the village of Abdita, Idlib governate on December 7th 2019, according to local media.

Three sources said a child, Abdullah Al-Zaidan, died from wounds he sustained in the strike. The Syrian Human Rights Committee and ِAbo Ibrahim Tata announced the death of two other children, Noor Ali Zidan, 13, and Iman Ali Zidan, 11. A mother, Walaa Al-Jazzar, and her two daughters, Sundus, 2, and Zainab, 3, were also killed according to the sources. Zaitun Agency reported that a man had been killed in the strike, no further details were provided.

Shahba Press, @media_idlib and the Syrian White Helmets reported that four civilians, three children and a woman, were injured in the strike

The majority of the sources said helicopters of the Syrian regime carried out the strike using barrel bombs. Two sources, @mahmoodtalha22 and local journalist Hassan al-Muhammad said Russian aircraft had carried out the strikes.

The incident took place in the afternoon.