• SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think few to no children were shot, but many were injured via indirect means, as I think I pretty clearly lay out.

    At the very minimum, it would be a rare occurrence for so many children to only be wounded if shot by a sniper rifle. It is unlikely, in general, that the wounds were from sniper rounds.

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      The majority of the injured were children and two are in critical condition as a result of sniper fire targeting the hospital, a Red Crescent statement said.

      So they got injured running from sniper fire? Did the sniper pull off some James Bond shit and shoot a dangling object to fall on them?

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        1 year ago

        Idk if you know this but sniper rifles are pretty powerful and fuck things up.

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              They fuck up what you’re aiming at. In this case, mostly children.

              Sorry if that was unclear.

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                1 year ago

                Except that’s literally not how the damage profile of such a round functions. Limbs disappear - soldiers die. Children would be slaughtered. This clearly did not happen.

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                    1 year ago

                    I know, in general, how sniper rifles work, and it is explicitly mentioned in the article it was sniper fire.