Dead and injured in Turkish airstrike on oil refinery in Syria

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(24 Oct 2024)
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Derik, Syria - 24 October 2024
1. Various of oil tankers burning in Derik
2. Destroyed facilities and pipes on ground
3. Crude oil spilled on ground
4. Fire engine heading to site
5. Workers leaving
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amir Samu, administrator at oil refinery:
“It was yesterday night around 2:30 when the assault happened. There were about six attacks and we lost seven martyrs of workers and guards, and we have approximately 17 injured. They were all poor workers working in the refinery and make a living. I mean it is a civilian facility, not a military one or anything like that.”
7. Various of US military vehicles passing by targeted site
8. Various of destroyed vehicles and trucks in the refinery
9. Various of damaged facilities in the refinery
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amir Samu, administrator at oil refinery:
“Indeed, indeed the damage will have effects on diesel, petrol, and gas in general. I mean this refinery is the only working refinery that feeds the area. If it stops, then it means there won’t be any diesel, petrol, or anything. So, there will be a crisis in the country, because it is the refinery that feeds the area.”
11. Various of destroyed cars and facilities in the refinery
12. Man walking inside the refinery
13. Oil tankers burning in the refinery
14. Smoke raises from newly attacked power station in Rumilan area




STORYLINE:
Turkish warplanes targeted an oil refinery outside the city of Derik in northeastern Syria on Thursday.

A worker at the Al Sweidiya 3 refinery said seven people were killed and a further 17 were injured.

"They were all poor workers working in the refinery and make a living. I mean it is a civilian facility, not a military one or anything like that," said Amir Samu, an administrator at the oil refinery.

On Wednesday, Turkey’s air force carried out airstrikes against similar targets in northern Syria and northern Iraq, hours after government officials blamed the deadly attack at the headquarters of the aerospace and defense company TUSAS, on the PKK.

The assailants — a man and a woman — arrived at the TUSAS premises on the outskirts of Ankara in a taxi they commandeered after killing its driver, reports said.

Armed with assault rifles, they set off explosives and opened fire, killing four people at TUSAS, including a security guard and a mechanical engineer.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya named the assailants as Mine Sevjin Alcicek and Ali Orek and identified them as PKK members.

Defense Minister Yasar Guler said Thursday that 47 alleged PKK targets were destroyed in Wednesday’s airstrikes — 29 in Iraq and 18 in Syria.

There was no immediate statement from the PKK on the attack or the Turkish airstrikes.

In Syria, the main U.S.-backed force said Turkish strikes in the north of the country killed 12 civilians and wounded 25.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said Turkish warplanes and drones struck bakeries, power stations, oil facilities and local police checkpoints.

The PKK has been fighting for autonomy in southeastern Turkey in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people since the 1980s. It is considered a terrorist group by Turkey and its Western allies.

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