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(Previous Incident Code: Y27)
On March 9th, The Smart News Agency reported: “a woman and her child were wounded on Friday by an artillery bombardment of the Kurdish “People’s Protection Units” on the village of Ma’rsteh al-Khan (21 km north of Aleppo) in northern Syria.
The correspondent of Smart quoted a military source that a 120mm mortar shell was fired by Kurdish units from their positions around the village of Meriamin, pointing out that the wounded were taken to the hospital in the city of Azaz for treatment.”
No further details are currently available.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Ma’rsteh, for which the generic coordinates are: 36.380833, 37.075833. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.