Chilling moment a young girl’s seemingly lifeless body is pulled from the rubble following air raids on Aleppo
Four children were killed in the war-ravaged city as airstrikes pounded targets near schools and hospitals
Four children were killed in the war-ravaged city as airstrikes pounded targets near schools and hospitals
THIS is the heart-wrenching moment a young girl's seemingly lifeless body is pulled from the rubble of buildings flattened in overnight air raids on Aleppo.
Rescuers are seen pulling the girl - who looks about six - from the wreckage of her home after it was destroyed by Syrian barrel bombs.
After pulling mounds of concrete off her body, they finally manage to free her limp body.
It is only when she in placed on a waiting stretcher that she starts to show any signs of life.
Amazingly after being rushed to a nearby medical centre, the schoolgirl quickly recovers and after washing dust out of her eyes she tells the cameraman her name is Khadija.
Visibly shaken the girl seems to have escaped with nothing more than a nosebleed.
The video was shared by the Aleppo Media Center, one of the main opposition sources in the city.
Others weren't so lucky.
Four children were killed in the war-ravaged city today as regime airstrikes pounded targets near schools and hospitals.
The children were reportedly killed in the neighbourhood of al-Sukkari and were among nine people killed across Aleppo's rebel-held east in Wednesday's air raid by Syrian and Russian military forces.
A medic was among the dead.
Other children were also wounded in a strike near a school in the Salaheddin neighborhood.
A picture posted on the AMC's Facebook page showed children from another area, Karam al-Beik, fleeing -- still wearing their school backpacks -- through rubble from obliterated buildings.
Wednesday's bombardment has been mainly focused on an area called al-Shaar, where five medical facilities, including a children's hospital, are located.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, confirmed the strikes.
Moscow has sought to distance itself from the blitz, with Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov saying today that the Russian air force had not carried out the Aleppo strikes, according to state-run news agency Tass.
"Our strikes in Syria are proportionate, surgical and precise," he said.
Russia is launching its attacks from a fleet of warships off the coast of Syria.
The strikes mark the second day of bombardment by the Syrian regime, after a chilling text message was sent en masse to residents in the east, essentially telling them to flee or be killed in the bombings.
There had been a three-week lull in eastern Aleppo air raids before the Syrian government blitzed the area Tuesday, using what the regime called "precision weapons to target terrorist positions."
Warplanes hit several opposition areas in Aleppo city yesterday, recommencing a regime bombardment after several weeks of relative calm.
Barrels bombs were also dropped on areas including Hanano, Babn Nayrab, Qadi Askar and Qaterji in east Aleppo city, the observatory said.