Aug 17, 2016 – Covered in a thick layer of gray dust as blood ran down half of his face, one five-year-old Syrian boy sat in a bright orange ambulance chair, appearing completely detached from the horrific airstrike he just endured in Aleppo.
Omran Daqneesh — along with four other children, one woman and two men — was wounded by an airstrike ordered Wednesday night in the Qaterji neighborhood by the Russian military or Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, The Telegraph reported. The dazed child’s photo, which has been widely circulated on Twitter since emerging, shows him seemingly unaware of the large gash in his forehead.
The image offers just a glimpse into the horrors plaguing Aleppo as it continues to suffer from airstrike after airstrike during the country’s gruesome civil war.
Omran’s intense and bloody rescue was captured by the Aleppo Media Center. The footage shows rescuers pulling the unengaged boy from a pile of rubble, remains from a house that now stands in ruin. He is seen sitting with a blank stare while others slowly hobble out of the wreckage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cfBmRW3isc
The child is never seen crying, but at one point reaches up to feel the wound on his forehead. After staring at his small blood-soaked hand for a short moment, he tries to wipe evidence of the pain away on the seat.
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