Child and SDF fighter among many killed or injured in IED explosion in rural Deir Ezzor

SOHR activists have documented the killing of an SDF fighter and the injury of five other members due to the explosion of an IED that targeted their military vehicle, in the outdoors market of Swidan Jazira town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. The explosion also claimed the live of a child.

As more people were killed, it rose to 486 fighters, civilians, oil workers, and officials in service parties, the number of people who were killed in areas within the four provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah and Al-Hasakah, in addition to the SDF-held area of Manbij in the north-east of Aleppo.

Syrian Observatory documented the assassination of 159 civilians including nine children and seven women by armed cells in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, al-Hasakah countryside, al-Raqqah city and countryside, and Manbij area. In addition, 323 SDF fighters, including local leaders, were assassinated in the same areas.

Also four members of International Coalition were killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Human also documented tens of injuries due to these assassinations.