Beirut - Syrian opposition activists reported a shocking record that shows a young boy rescued from the rubble after a devastating airstrike in Aleppo.
The photos and the video shows the boy sitting, covered by the debris and blood on face powder, and were seen as a summary of the horrors inflicted on the population in this city in northern Syria ravaged by war.
The boy's records have been widely shared on social media. On Thursday, a doctor in Aleppo, Osama Abu al-Ezz, identified the boy as Omran Daqneesh of 5 years.
The doctor said the boy was taken to hospital known as "M10" on the night of Wednesday, after an air raid in Qaterji neighborhood controlled by the rebels. The child had head injuries, but no brain injury and has been released.
Rescue workers and journalists reached Qaterji shortly after the air strike and began to pull victims from the rubble. A doctor at the hospital said there were at least eight killed in the attacks, including five children.
The attack took place during the time of the call of the setting of the sun for Muslim prayers, around 19:20 (local time), said a correspondent of Al-Jazeera.
Omran was rescued along with his three brothers, ages 1, 6 and 11 years, and the parents. According to the correspondent, the family house was partially destroyed by the attack. None of them had serious injuries, but the building collapsed just after the rescue.
In the video released late Wednesday by the Aleppo Media Centre, a man is seen taking the attack scene boy and taking him to the ambulance. The boy puts his hand on face covered in blood, looks at it and then clean the seat of the ambulance.
The horror generated by the boy's image victim of the attack echoes the anguished global response to photos of Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian boy who drowned on a beach in Turkey and whose image has become an icon of the horrors of civil war in Syria and drama refugees.
Source: Associated Press.
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