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One woman was killed and up to 22 more were wounded, including women and children, in alleged Turkish artillery and/or airstrike shelling of Qarah village, Syria, according to local sources.
Hawar News reported: “A citizen woman was killed and an elderly man was seriously injured by the Turkish occupation army shelling on the village of Qara Tabah, belonging to the Afrin region. According to the information reported by our correspondent, the Turkish occupation bombed the village of Qara Tbeh of the Afrin region late at night after midnight, resulting in the death of 50-year-old citizen Ramziya Abdulrahman and the injury Nabi Safar Sheikho, 60, which led to the amputation of his right hand. Both citizens were transferred to one of the hospitals in the city of Afrin.”
Sources said that Nabi Safar Sheikho was Ramziya Abdulrahman’s husband.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that “artillery, missiles and airstrikes killed at least one citizen and wounded dozens of citizens, including civilians and children, Some of the wounded were seriously injured”.
Adapress said that up to 22 civilians were wounded including seven children “as a result of Turkish bombardment of the village of Qara Tabah and the village of Barbana in Rajo”.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
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A wounded civilian in the aftermath of alleged Turkish shelling on Qarah Tabah village, Shara district, Afrin, 5th March 2018. (via Jwanmoustafa5) -
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A wounded civilian in the aftermath of alleged Turkish shelling on Qarah Tabah village, Shara district, Afrin, 5th March 2018. (via Arin Chikhmous) -
A wounded civilian in the aftermath of alleged Turkish shelling on Qarah Tabah village, Shara district, Afrin, 5th March 2018. (via ANHA)
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Qarah Tabah village, Shara district, Afrin (قارة تابه), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.554722, 36.895000. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.