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WARNING: The video below contains graphic content.
SYRIAN ACTIVISTS HAVE released shocking footage of a small boy sitting in the back of an ambulance after being rescued from the rubble of a building.
The images, released online by the Aleppo Media Center, show the boy being carried from the building which was destroyed in an air strike in the city.
In the video he is placed on a chair in the ambulance, his face stunned and bloodied and covered in dust. As the camera zooms in on him, he puts his hand to the wound on his head, looks at it and wipes some blood on the seat.
A doctor in Aleppo identified the boy as five-year-old Omran Daqneesh. Osama Abu al-Ezz confirmed he was brought to the hospital known as “M10″ last night following an airstrike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Qaterji with head wounds, but no brain injury, and was later discharged.
Rescue workers and journalists arrived at Qaterji shortly after the strike and began pulling victims from the rubble.
Rescued from the rubble
“We were passing them from one balcony to the other,” said photojournalist Mahmoud Raslan, who took the footage. He said he had passed along three lifeless bodies before receiving the wounded boy.
A doctor at M10 later reported eight dead, among them five children.
The strike occurred during the sunset call to prayer, around 7.20pm, said Raslan, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubashir.
Omran was rescued along with his three siblings, ages one, six, and 11, and his mother and father from the rubble of their partially destroyed apartment building, according to Raslan. None sustained major injuries, but the building collapsed shortly after the family was rescued.
“We sent the younger children immediately to the ambulance, but the 11-year-old girl waited for her mother to be rescued. Her ankle was pinned beneath the rubble,” Raslan said.
Code names
Doctors in Aleppo use code names for hospitals, which they say have been systematically targeted by government airstrikes. Abu al-Ezz said they do that “because we are afraid security forces will infiltrate their medical network and target ambulances as they transfer patients from one hospital to another.”
Activists living in opposition areas rely on informers in the government-controlled Latakia province to warn residents of impending airstrikes. On Wednesday evening, an informant in Latakia informed activist networks that a jet had taken off from the Russian air base at Hmeimim.
“We expected the plane to arrive in Aleppo airspace in two minutes, and sure enough it did,” said Raslan. “It struck twice.”
No one was injured in the first strike, said Raslan. The second one turned Omran’s life upside down.
- With reporting by Michelle Hennessy.
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Got this a few weeks back and knew it was a scam straight away. Sur who would be sending me flowers… ?
You mean there are no flowers? #foreveralone
Who won the lotto?
I Did WohoHo
As a meteor customer I am aware of meteor full stop….!
Think of all the genuine flowers that will never be collected now.
Being a Meteor Customer I would be lucky to get a scam text with the reception I have in my house !
It redirects you to a movie and when u watch it you die within 7 working days
Meteors “unlimited” data plan is an even bigger scam.
That has being going around awhile got one a few months ago
Try roaming in France or Italy with Meteor, pure disaster. When you discover that they have no roaming deal done with any operator in these countries, their best suggestion is to send a text to accept charges, this does’nt work. Then they suggest logging on to a website to accept the roaming charges. Of course, given that you don’t have a data connection, this is a bit of a problem so then they suggest finding WiFi to accept the charges. If I had easy access to WiFi, why the f~#k would I need to pay for roaming in the first place. In any event, even when I tried this, it did not work.
So then, you get back to Ireland and contact them with a complaint which they cannot resolve, you ask for a manager, they tell you there is none available, then you ask to speak to the Services Director, they say that they do know their name. What is the name of your Managing Director and what is their contact email? They do not know!! They call this customer service.
Then there was an issue with the Zamano text scam on Meteor where you get billed for about 6 texts that arrive in a burst at 2am and you get a bill of €1.60 a text. Meteor claim that they can do nothing about this.
Here is some free advice NEVER USE METEOR.
Meteor are PURE CRAP.
Hey declan, With zamano and all those other companies all you have to do is to reply STOP to the text. You can get all that money back too by contacting the telecomms regulator.
Meteor roaming is pretty shite though but in fairness they do have some pretty good plans for the low end users. That new unlim plan is popular.
Kevin, thanks for the tip on Zamano / regulator
they need a better hook, its like getting a call from Microsoft support at home….seems legit
They wouldn’t do it if people didn’t fall for it…
Dee4 I actually heard before that these scams are set up to be so intentionally stupid that it will only catch out the ones that are likely to easily give up their credit card details. Same as the Nigerian prince scams etc., they don’t want to have their time wasted by people that aren’t going to give them their bank details so they set them out to miss 99.9% of people.
Just received my flowers there, brighten the place up a treat. Would recommend.
Least of your problems if you’re a Meteor customer I think
You’d wana be a right dingbat
If you eat some Namm Bread every day then your brain will be alert to all scams
Used to be a meteor customer I got out in time hearing noting but bad stories now. Not such a cheap service anymore. Vodaphone gives great deals on there red service
correct.they have to have the worst customer service of any company i have dealt with.rude,clueless staff.
I’m sure we will all receive this text in the next few days
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