Who is Omran Daqneesh? How the Syrian boy in the ambulance captured the horror of Aleppo
Sat unresponsive in the back of a Syrian ambulance the young lad reminded the world of the horror inside the war torn nation
DAZED, confused and coated with blood and dust, Omran Daqneesh's photograph stunned the world this week.
Sat unresponsive in the back of a Syrian ambulance the young lad from Aleppo reminded the world of the horror inside the war torn nation.
Medical workers identified the poor boy shortly after they pulled him from the wreckage wrought by a Syrian government or Russian airstrike in the city.
Omran was one of 12 kids treated at one of the hospitals in the rebel held eastern part of the city.
Within moments of the picture and a video being posted on the internet the image shot round the world on Twitter and Facebook.
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His ashen, dust-covered face, smeared with blood and a vacant, seemingly shell-shocked, stare captured the worlds imagination in a way not seen since Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach last September.
Omran's photo graced the pages of newspapers the world over, drawing many calls for more to be done to help the plight of Syrians.
CNN anchor Kate Bolduan broke down as she presented the video saying: “There are no tears here. He doesn’t cry once. That boy is in total shock.
“What strikes me is, we shed tears, but there are no tears here. He doesn’t cry once.
"That boy is in total shock. Inside his home one moment, and the next — lost in the flurry and fury of war and chaos.
“At least three people were killed in the bombing in his neighbourhood.
"This is Omran. He’s alive. We wanted you to know.”
A surgeon told of how the boy was sleeping in his home when the bomb dropped and devastated the house.
But mercifully he went on to say that Omran's prognosis was "very good".
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