Turkish bombardment pummels Syria’s Hasakah, leaving casualties
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) — Four people were killed and five others were injured on Tuesday in Turkish ground and aerial bombardment of the eastern and northern countryside of Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.
On Tuesday afternoon, two officials in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) lost their lives in a Turkish drone strike on their car in the eastern countryside of Qamishli, east of Hasakah.
The AANES Executive Council said in a statement published on their official website that each of Zaynab Sarokhan and Yilmaz Rasho, co-chairs of the AANES Justice and Reform Office, lost their lives in the Turkish drone strike.
Hours later, Turkish forces and their affiliated armed Syrian opposition factions, known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), shelled inhabited villages in the northern countryside of Hasakah.
The shelling focused on the villages of al-Mushayrfa, Khadrawi, al-Bobi, Dada Abdal and al-Asadiya in the countryside of the town of Zirgan (Abu Rasin), a military source told North Press.
Nayef al-Hayawi and Rima al-Hayawi lost their lives immediately as a result of the shelling of al-Mushayrfa.
An eyewitness from al-Mushayrfa told North Press that a shell fell inside his house.
“The shelling targeted civilians; there were no military forces present in or around the village,” the eyewitness added.
In addition, five children were injured due to the shelling of the aforementioned villages, according to the same source.
A medical source at the People’s Hospital in Hasakah told North Press that three people with varying injuries arrived at the hospital.
He added that 13-year-old girl Sarah Hayawi was hit by shrapnel in the head, shoulder and chest; 3-year-old girl Judy Hayawi received shrapnel in the head and spine; 22-year-old Rahaf Ibrahim Gatah, who is six months pregnant, was hit in her right forearm and shoulder.
On Monday, the Turkish forces shelled outposts of the Syrian government forces on the outskirt of al-Bobi, wounding a soldier.
Dada Abdel northwest of Zirgan and al-Dardara north of the town of Tel Tamr were also subjected to similar bombardment, but no casualties were reported.
The city of Kobani, northern Syria, was not spared of these attacks, as on September 26 morning, a Turkish drone strike hit the AANES headquarters, but no casualties were recorded.
The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the SDF defeated ISIS militarily there.