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Airwars assessment
Between three and five civilians were reported injured when Turkish airstrikes struck the village of Spindar in the evening of July 18th.
Bas News reported that Turkish warplanes shelled several positions in the village Spindar with rockets, while “chasing a car for the militants of the Kurdistan Workers, where the gunmen hid in the village”. The source added that the strikes injured a number of citizens and that the villagers detained the three PKK militants who were hiding in the village.
According to local source @VagerSaadulah however, the airstrike wounded the three PKK fighters who were in the car when it was struck and an additional three civilians on the side road. One civilian was a German citizen, according to the source.
Rudaw said five civilians were injured, five of them children.
The incident occured in the evening.
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Car allegedly hit by a Turkish airstrike on Spindar village in Dohuk on July 18th (via Roj News).
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Car allegedly hit by a Turkish airstrike on Spindar village in Dohuk on July 18th (via Roj News).
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Spindar (سبيندار) for which the generic coordinates are: 37.035278, 43.571111. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.