Blood and soot: Image of Syrian boy rescued from Aleppo rubble  shocks the world

Beirut: A photograph of a boy sitting dazed and bloodied in the back of an ambulance after an airstrike in the ongoing Syrian civilian war has reminded the world about the horrors of war.
Released by the Syrian opposition activists, the image is being widely shared on social media.

The boy is identified by doctors as 5-year-old Omran. he was rescued from the rubble in the aftermath of a devastating airstrike in Aleppo.

In a video posted late Wednesday by the Aleppo Media Center, a man carries the boy away from the rubble following an airstrike on the rebel-held district Qaterji. The man then placed the stunned-looking boy in the ambulance and later wiped the blood from his face.

Aleppo is a city in northern Syria that has been besieged for years during that country’s civil war. Thousands of people have been killed there.