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Four civilians including an elderly woman were wounded in an alleged Turkish artillery attack on Jelber village, Afrin, according to local media.
Aksalser cited Kurdish Activists and reported that “a woman from the village of Gelber in the countryside of Afrin was injured by the Turkish artillery”
Azadiy Kurdistan said that “according to medical sources, four civilians were wounded in the village of Jalbar as a result of the shelling of the village by the Turkish army and the militias backed by them.”
According to Welat FM “the hospital administration confirmed that they also received four injured civilians from the village of Gelber in the area of Shirawa as a result of targeting the village more than 20 shells.”
Rok Online said that those injured included an elderly woman.
Aylina Kilic provided some further details, reporting: ‘Sabah Isa (40) who was wounded in the shelling of Turkish-backed groups on the #Afrin village said: “Was it a mortar or shell, I don’t know”.
“She continued: ‘They fired it and I was in the balcony. I told the children to come inside. They were firing at the garden and surroundings’.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Jelber village, [or Cilbir] Shirawa district, for which the generic coordinates are: 36.484167, 36.968889. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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BREAKING - Turkey-backed jihadists are shelling the villages Mernaz & Qestel Cindo of Canton #Afrin & town Til Rifat in region Shahba (ANHA)
— Cahîda Dêrsim (@dersi4m) July 3, 2017