The photo continues to turn on social networks: two girls, trapped in their collapsed building after an air raid in northwestern Syria, hold their little sister suspended, suspended several meters from the ground. In the photo, Riham, five, retains Touka, seven months, by his torn T-shirt, while Dalia, next, seems stuck under a block of concrete. Higher up, a man screams and stands forehead, helpless in front of the drama.
Captured by photographer Bashar el-Sheikh, of the local online media SY24, this scene took place Wednesday in Ariha, a city in the province of Idleb and target of deadly bombing of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, according to the Observatory Syria Human Rights (OSDH). Riham died shortly after taking this picture, while Touka and Dalia were hospitalized in Idleb.
The mother of this family of six sisters was killed in the bombing
"Touka suffers from head trauma, has been under artificial respiration for 24 hours, is now in intensive care, and is in stable condition, God willing," said Dr. Ismaïl. Dalia, she, "is in a stable state", having been operated, wounded in the chest, according to the doctor Mohamed, a doctor of the same establishment.
Tawfik Kattan was one of the White Helmets rescuers who intervened Wednesday in Ariha after the air raid. After evacuating a victim, he returned as quickly to the scene of the tragedy. But, he says, "the two girls had fallen" in the meantime. The mother of this family of six sisters was killed in the bombing. In addition to Riham, a second of his daughters, Rowane, three years old, died Friday of her wounds in the stomach and chest. Two other sisters were injured but survived.
The nightmare in northwestern Syria is getting worse.
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The Syrian regime is pounding almost daily since the end of April the province of Idleb
Supported by its Russian ally, the Syrian regime has pounded almost daily since the end of April the province of Idleb, as well as adjacent areas in the provinces bordering Aleppo, Hama and Latakia. In almost three months, air strikes killed about 740 civilians, including more than 180 children, according to the OSDH. The number of children killed in Idleb in the last four weeks now exceeds the record for the whole of 2018, said Thursday the NGO "Save the Children". Triggered in 2011 by the suppression of pro-democracy protests by the Bashar al-Assad regime, the war in Syria claimed more than 370,000 lives and displaced millions of people.