22 August,2016 07:18 AM IST | | Agencies
4-year-old Omran and 10-year-old Ali had been rescued from an air strike in Aleppo
The image of the Syrian boy that has sent ripples across the globe.
Beirut: The older brother of Omran, the little Syrian boy who was pictured sitting in an ambulance dazed and covered in blood after an air strike, died from wounds sustained in the attack on the family's apartment, a monitoring group has said.
The image of the Syrian boy that has sent ripples across the globe.
"Ali, aged 10, succumbed to his injuries. He was badly wounded in the same bombardment as Omran on August 17 in Aleppo," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday.
The haunting images of four-year-old Omran, clipped from video footage where he is seen quietly staring into space before raising his arms to touch his bloodied forehead, then looking at his hand and wiping it on the orange seat, have reverberated around the world. Much like images of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi's body washing up a on Tukish beach, Omran's images have become a symbol for the suffering of children in Syria's brutal five-year conflict.
Omran, his siblings and parents were all plucked from the rubble wounded, but alive, following Wednesday's bombing. The Aleppo Media Centre confirmed Ali's death in a video yesterday.
