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Three civilians including an elderly woman died and 24 others including children and women were wounded in an alleged Turkish shelling of a bus in the village of Barbaneh, Syria.
Sources said that victims were wounded by artillery shrapnel and transferred to Afrin hospital.
Reports said that three victims later died. They were named as Amina Mohammed Mustafa (an 80-year-old woman), Abdel Rahman Khalil, 43-years-old, and Nouri Juma.
According to The War Media of the SDF, “On the morning of 5 March 2018, Turkish aircraft targeted an internal transport vehicle on the road leading to the Rajo area (the village of Barbaneh), injuring 22 civilians, including four children and more than 15 women.”
Afrin Media Center reported that “Three sisters Alia 12, Nerouz 35, and Nazifa Mustafa 19 years old were injured on March 2 after a bus carrying their family was bombed by #Olive_Branch forces, killing their elderly grandmother and another girl and injuring 18 others”.
Rumaf added some more details on the injuries of the sisters. It said: “As a result of the injury, the three sisters lost the ability to see relatively well, especially 12-year-old Alia Mustafa, who lost her right eye and Nerouz, who has a broken lens in the eye. Nazifa has deformity in retinas”.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (3)
The victims were named as:
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Civilian bus at Barbaneh village, Rajo, Afrin (بربان), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.633611, 36.713611. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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A wounded civilian in the aftermath of the alleged Turkish airstrikes on a civilian bus at Barbaneh village, Rajo, Afrin, 5th March 2018. (via The war Media of the SDF)
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A wounded civilian in the aftermath of the alleged Turkish airstrikes on a civilian bus at Barbaneh village, Rajo, Afrin, 5th March 2018. (via Kurdish red crescent)
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Hussein Abdel Qader, wounded in the alleged Turkish airstrikes on a civilian bus at Barbaneh village, Rajo, Afrin, 5th March 2018. (via Rojava) -
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Amina Mustafa, killed in the alleged Turkish airstrikes on a civilian bus at Barbaneh village, Rajo, Afrin, 5th March 2018. (via Arin CHikhmous) -
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List of wounded. (via Rumaf)
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Abdel Rahman Khalil, killed in the alleged Turkish airstrikes on a civilian bus at Barbaneh village, Rajo, Afrin, 5th March 2018. (via Arin Chikhmous) -
Abdel Rahman Khalil, killed in the alleged Turkish airstrikes on a civilian bus at Barbaneh village, Rajo, Afrin, 5th March 2018. (via Arin Chikhmous)
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Three sisters Alia 12, Nerouz 35, and Nazifa Mustafa 19 years old months after their injuries as a result of alleged Turkish airstrikes on a civilian bus at Barbaneh village, Rajo, Afrin, 5th March 2018. (via Afrin media centre)
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Three sisters Alia 12, Nerouz 35, and Nazifa Mustafa 19 years old months after their injuries as a result of alleged Turkish airstrikes on a civilian bus at Barbaneh village, Rajo, Afrin, 5th March 2018. (via Afrin media centre)
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Three sisters Alia 12, Nerouz 35, and Nazifa Mustafa 19 years old months after their injuries as a result of alleged Turkish airstrikes on a civilian bus at Barbaneh village, Rajo, Afrin, 5th March 2018. (via Afrin media centre)