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(Previous Incident Code: Y12)
Up to four civilians died in an alleged YPG rocket shelling of Al Rihaniya in Turkey, according to local media.
Afrin Battle News [pro FSA and Olive Branch] reported the death of four civilians and wounding of seven more. It named the 17-year-old girl Fatma Avlar as a victim.
The victim was named by multiple other sources, which said she died from injuries sustained in a rocket attack by the YPG. Reports said she was asleep when the attack occurred.
According to Onedio, a rocket “hit the garden wall of a three-story house in Gültepe Mahallesi. Soon after, the rocket fell to another house in the same neighborhood.”
The source Haber turk reported that as many as five rockets were thrown.
The News of Syrians in Turkey also reported the death of a girl and wounding of an unspecified number of other civilians.
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Reports of the incident mention the city of Al Rihaniya (الريحانية), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.268535, 36.567411. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.