(Previous Incident Codes: R4283RS4524)

Two children were reportedly injured as a result of an alleged explosion of a cluster bomb left over from Russian airstrikes on the town of Al Tayba, east of Deir Ezzor, on the dawn of October 4th, 2020 according to two local sources.

Ahrar Al Mayadeen news agency and a tweet by (@DeirEzzor24) claimed that an alleged Russian cluster bomb explosion in Al Tayba town injured the child Luai Thamer Al-Sawma’i and Mahmoud Al-Thiab’s son.

None of the sources mentioned anything about claimed killed civilians, and both sources that reported on the incident mentioned that the cluster bomb was Russian.