(FILE PHOTO)A Kurdish fighter from the People's Protection Units (YPG) looks at a smoke after an coalition airstrike in Raqqa, Syria June 16, 2017. (REUTERS Photo)

DAMASCUS, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The U.S.-led coalition struck a village in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour, killing 40 civilians, state news agency SANA reported on Wednesday.

Mostly women and children are among those killed when the U.S.-led airstrike targeted the village of Dablan in the countryside of Deir al-Zour, said SANA.

The attack comes a day after a similar airstrike killed 57 people, half of whom civilians in a prison held by the Islamic State (IS) in the eastern city of Mayadeen in Deir al-Zour.

The U.S.-led coalition has been active recently in striking IS positions in Raqqa and Deir al-Zour, as part of its resolve to support the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces group in their push to dislodge IS out of Raqqa and parts of Deir al-Zour.

But civilian casualties are falling on daily basis as a result of such strikes.