Beirut ;The older brother of the little Syrian boy who was pictured sitting in an ambulance dazed and covered in blood after an air strike, died Saturday from wounds sustained in the attack on the family\u2019s apartment, a monitoring group said.
\n“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.
\nThe haunting images of four-year-old Omran, sitting in an ambulance after the attack, his face, arms and legs caked in blood and dust, have reverberated around the world, becoming a symbol for the suffering of children in Syria\u2019s brutal five-year conflict.
\nIn video footage from the incident, Omran 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.
\nOmran, his siblings and parents were all plucked from the rubble wounded, but alive, following Wednesday\u2019s bombing on the Qaterji neighbourhood in rebel-held east Aleppo.
\nThe Aleppo Media Centre, a network of activists in the divided northern city, confirmed Ali\u2019s death in a video on Saturday.
\nThe images of Omran have sparked a global outcry, much like the photo last September of three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi, whose body washed ashore on a Turkish beach as his family tried to reach Europe.
\nMore than 290,000 people have been killed since Syria\u2019s conflict broke out, including nearly 15,000 children.
\nOmran\u2019s home city Aleppo has divided by government control in the west and opposition fighters in the east since 2012.
\nRegime warplanes, backed by Russia\u2019s air force since September 2015, bombard the eastern districts while rebel groups fire rockets into the west.
\nOf the estimated 250,000 people still living in the eastern parts of the city, 100,000 are children, according to the UN\u2019s children agency UNICEF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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