Raqqa resident Mustafa Ahmed told Sputnik said that during the coalition forces' airstrikes, he lost his only son and nephew. According to him, he witnessed scores of civilians dying in these air raids.
"My son and nephew were killed in a coalition airstrike last week when they went to a well for water. I come from [the northern Syrian city of] Manbij, but have lived in Raqqa for several years now," he said.
"Daesh was very cruel to us. The militants were the first to receive water, which was then given to all others. My son was killed because of several bottles of water," he said.
Ahmed was echoed by Kadir İbrahim, who said that he also lost a son as a result of one of the coalition forces' bombings which killed a total of 35 civilians.
"My nineteen-year-old son and nephew died as a result of an airstrike, when they tried to obtain water," according to Ibrahim.
Thirty-five-year-old Fatima Ali lost her husband in a coalition airstrike that claimed the lives of 50 people who were crushed under the rubble of a building which was hit by a missile. She said that her husband was survived by his son and a daughter.
"The operation to liberate Raqqa was very protracted and we could not leave our homes for a long time. On the one hand, air strikes were constantly being launched and on the other — clashes did not stop in the city," Ali added.
Twelve-year-old Suphi Muhli from the Ain Issa refugee camp near Raqqa said that his mother was killed when coalition warplanes dropped bombs on the Iraqi town of Tal Afar.
He explained that during the Iraqi army's anti-Daesh operation, his family tried to flee Tal Adar but that the terrorists prevented them from doing so.
He said that after their home was bombed out, they took refuge in a nearby school and that his mother was killed in an air raid when she went into the school's yard for water.
"We were heartbroken. We shudder every time we hear the sound of an aircraft and my younger brothers and sisters start to cry. Each time we hear a plane flying, we have before our eyes a picture of our mother's body lying under the rubble of a house. Apart from my mother, many others were killed by [coalition] airstrikes," Muhli added.
He said that he wants to return home as soon as possible and that now he has to care for his five brothers and two sisters living in the Ain Issa camp.
According to him, hundreds of people were killed and hundreds more injured in the airstrikes.
"Many tried to hide in mosques in the hope that they wouldn't target them, but mosques were also bombed. Because of the bombing, a significant number of civilians tried to flee the town," Abdi concluded.
On October 20, the Syrian Democratic Forces announced the full liberation of Raqqa from Daesh terrorists, something which was then confirmed by the US-led coalition.