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(Previous Incident Code: YS053 )
Between one and four civilians including a child were reported killed and many others injured in an alleged YPG artillery strike on Al Rafi’ village near Ain Issa city in Raqqa, on October 16th 2019, according to local media sources.
Balaid said that “four civilians were killed and eight others were wounded” – and blamed “the SDF”.
However, Zaman Al Wasl said that this was “a joint bombing by the SDF and the regime”.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Al Rafi (الرافع), allegedly located in the vicinity of Ain Issa (عين عيسى) city. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further. The generic coordinates for Ain Issa are: 36.383600, 38.865586.