Cluster Bomb / Submunition event in Idlib, Saraqeb area, Syrian Arab Republic on Sun 6th March 2016

6th March 2016

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#Idlib_Sector 3 June 2016

Although their use is internationally prohibited, Russian warplanes have fired five missiles carrying cluster bombs at the town of #Saraqib. The #Saraqib Civil Defence team headed to the sites of the strikes and evacuated some of the casualties… The team then worked with the #Sarmin centre to clear unexploded ordnance and extinguish a fire on farmland caused by the cluster bombing.

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Syrian Arab Republic (SYR)

Idlib ( Saraqeb area )

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