(Previous Incident Code: Y18)

Up to seven civilians including at least one child and one woman died and up to 14 others were wounded in an alleged YPG shelling of the al Bayan IDP camp on the Turkish-Syrian border, according to local media. Most sources blamed the YPG, though one source – a Kurdish media agency – alleged that Turkey was responsible.

Step News Agency said that three civilians died and 14 were wounded as a result of YPG artillery shelling. Orient added that a woman was also killed, along with seven others who were injured.

According to Geroun, “a 10-year-old girl was killed and 10 others wounded, including three children, in an artillery attack on the Etma refugee camp in northern Syria on the Syrian border with Turkey”.

Al Latamna Youth Group also named Sidra Hussein as a victim, and named the wounded. 

The source also published a graphic video in which a man, holding body parts of children, explains what happened. Here is the rough transcript of the video:

Man: “These are kids. Families that have been displaced from their homes. They left everything behind them so they can take refuge.”

Voice off camera asks: “How many people were killed here?”

Man: “No less than 6/7 people were killed.”

Voice off camera: “And the amputees?”

Man: “These we haven’t even counted. Some people lost their legs. There are a lot of injuries. This is a camp no one else is here.”

Voice off camera: “Was it one shell or more?”

Man: “There were several, one after the other.”

However, ANHA, the Kurdish news agency, denied that the YPGH was responsible and blamed Turkey for the attack. It reported: “One of the missiles fired by Turkey against the civilians of Afrin fell on the camp of Atma for the displaced, resulting in the injury of a number of residents injured, while the Turkish state claimed that the source of the missiles are the People Protection Units (YPG).”