(Previous Incident Code: R4448)

A pregnant woman and a child were killed and between one and three others, including up to two children, were injured in alleged Russian or regime artillery/heavy machine gun attack on the village of Maret Al Nassan on July 4, 2022.

According to @SyriaCivilDefe, a woman was killed and two children were injured in alleged Russian and regime attacks on the village of Maret Al Nassan. @SyriaCivilDefe added that the two children that were injured are brother and sister while Baladi News identified a man as being among the injured.

A tweet from @HalabTodayTV put the casualty count at one woman killed and three people injured, including a child. @OrientNews specified that members of the Al-Shawash family were among the casualties. However Zaman Al Wasl reported that a woman and a child were killed.

Syrian Network for Human Rights provided the name of the woman killed as Mrs. Mysaa al Damen (30 years old) and stated that she was pregnant at the time, and her unborn baby was killed. Her daughter was also injured in the bombing. Zaman Al Wasl identified Mrs. Mysaa as being a displaced person from the town of “Al-Kusaibiya” in the western countryside of Aleppo.

@shaamnews reported that civilian homes were struck during the attack.

The majority of sources that reported on this incident attributed the strikes to regime forces, with Zaman Al Wasl specifying that regime forces stationed in the town of “Miznaz” carried out the attack. However, the Syrian Civil Defense tweeted that the regime and Russian forces were responsible.

@HadiAlabdallah identified heavy artillery shells as being used in the attack, and Zaman Al Wasl added that heavy machine guns were also used. Additional sources pointed out that mortar shells were part of the bombardment.