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  • Wiping the blood from his face

  • Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh's trying to work out what has happened.

  • Another casualty of the war in Syria.

  • He was pulled from the rubble in Aleppo after his home was targeted by air strikes.

  • Somehow he survived, but at what cost?

  • His hair matted with the dust from his home, his face caked in his own blood.

  • He's left alone in the ambulance.

  • There's no one to hold his hand here.

  • And he doesn't even cry.

  • He just pats his little face, brushing his blood next to him

  • At least three people were killed last night in the attack on the rebel-held neighbourhood in the east of the city.

  • Several others were badly injured.

  • This though the face of a boy who is supposedly one of the lucky ones.

Wiping the blood from his face

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