The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The International Coalition carries out 2 massacres in the recent 24 hours in a town in the east of Deir Ezzor which claimed the lives of 46 citizens and members of the “Islamic State” organization

Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: several intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the International Coalition carried out 2 massacres in the past 24 hours in Al-Susah town in the enclave which is under the control of the “Islamic State” organization, at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, and which is ISIS last remaining enclave in the east of the Euphrates, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored today, Friday the 19th of October 2018, the death of 22 persons they are: 14 civilian men and young men, 3 members of the organization, and 5 persons whose identities have not known so far, they were killed in targeting to Al-Susah town in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, the shelling also resulted in the fall of a number of wounded some of whom are still in serious condition, the SOHR also monitored the death of 24 persons yesterday, Thursday the 18th of October 2018, they are: 18 citizens including 7 children and 4 women most of them are Iraqis, who were killed in the raids which targeted Al-Susah town, where this targeting took place yesterday Thursday and the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of injured cases in serious conditions and the presence of missing people.

And the Syrian Observatory documented more human losses since the eruption of clashes in the east of the Euphrates at the end of the 10th of September 2018, where it rose to at least 354, the number of ISIS members who were killed in the ongoing clashes and the Coalition’s strikes, while 209 members at least have been killed of the Syria Democratic Forces since the start of military operations on the 10th of September 2018, one of whom has served as a field commander in Deir Ezzor Military Council of the Syria Democratic Forces, while the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of information about other casualties as well as the presence of injured cases in serious conditions, the Syrian Observatory also documented the death of 7 citizens they are: 2 child girls were killed in shelling by the SDF on ISIS enclave, and the rest were killed in shelling by the International Coalition on the same enclave.

 

 

Link of a high resolution map of distributing the powers and conflict in Deir Ezzor province