The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Coalition’s warplanes destroy the building of which the founder of Aamaq Agency used to live, death toll of bombing rise to 154 after pulling tens of bodies

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that Rayan Meshaal who is the founder of Aamaq news agency affiliated to the “Islamic State” organization, used to live in Al-Dahmoush building near the government complex known as Al-Saraya and Al-Shaker café in al-Mayadin city in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, the four-story building was inhabited mostly by families of members of the “Islamic State” organization of Syrian and Moroccan nationalities.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received information from reliable sources about the presence of Ryan Meshaal in al-Dahmoush building 3 hours before it was targeted by the International Coalition; at 7:25 in the evening of Thursday the 25th of May 2017, while the Syrian Observatory can’t confirm whether Ryan Meshaal is among those who were killed by the airstrikes that targeted the building and killed 26 persons of the organization’s families, also the airstrikes caused injuries and some people gone missing, where the Syrian Observatory learned that those who were killed, injured and lost belong to 7 families of the “Islamic State” organization’s members.

Also Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the “Islamic State” organization and the rescue teams in al-Mayadin city in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor have pulled 48 bodies at least from under the rubble of the Municipal Building which was bombed after the midnight of the 26th of May, raising to 154 persons, they are: 68 children under the age of sixteen, 57 female over the age of sixteen and 29 men, the number of family members of the “Islamic State” organization who were documented by Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in 2 rounds of bombing that targeted al-Mayadin city on the 25th and 26th of May 2017, also the bombing injured tens of people and some people gone missing, while others suffered severe injuries and permanent disability.