Little boy in Aleppo a vivid reminder of war's horror

This is what collateral damage looks like in Syria



(CNN) His name is Omran. The image of him, bloodied and covered with dust, sitting silently in an ambulance awaiting help, is another stark reminder of the toll of the war in Syria.
He is young -- one witness puts him at five years old, as old as the Syrian war itself.

He lived with his mother, father, brother and sister in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a contact on the ground tells CNN.
He and his family were injured when their house was destroyed by an airstrike Wednesday. Miraculously, everyone in his immediate family survived. Activists blame the Syrian regime and Russia for the bombings.
Aleppo, in northern Syria, has been besieged for years during that country's civil war. Thousands of people have been killed there, and many lives have been upturned.
Omran's family are among them.

He was not crying at any point during the rescue.
"He was in extreme shock," according to a spokesman for the Aleppo Media Center, an activist group.
He looks dazed as he sits on the vehicle's orange seat, his hands on his lap, as he waits to be treated, as he waits for somebody to help him.

"The truth is that the image you see today is repeated every day in Aleppo," said Mustafa al Sarouq, a cameraman with the Aleppo Media Center, who filmed the video.

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