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(Previous Incident Code: R408)
Nine to 12 civilians including up to six women and four children were killed and ten others injured in alleged Russian airstrikes on Hussainiya, according to multiple sources.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that Russian aircraft launches two rockets on the town, killing nine non-combatants.
According to Deir Ezzor is Being Silently Slaughtered, Russian warplanes “bombed the house of Hussein al Faraj in the village of Husseiniya ‘Al Shahabat’ near the grain stores killing civilians.”
Both the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Shaam News Network put the death toll at 10 – with SOHR saying that this included six women and one child. Syrian News Desk cited local Mohamed Hussein as saying that “the Russian air force targeted areas where civilians were present in the town which led to the deaths, including members of an entire family. Dozens were wounded, some critically, including children. A number of residential houses were destroyed, with material damage to shops.”
Three unnamed children were also found.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Hussainiya (الحسينية), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.35905, 40.15113. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.