A video which shows the after effects of a devastating airstrike reveal the moment a stunned boy is rescued and taken into an ambulance, after attacks destroy a building in Aleppo.
The boy, identified as five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, is shown sitting on an ambulance seat in a dazed and disoriented state, covered in dust and seemingly, barely unaware, of a bleeding open wound on his forehead.
The images, which have been shared widely on social media, have led to comparisons with that of three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi, who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea last year, after his family fled Turkey in a small inflatable boat en route to Greece.
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Omran was later taken to a hospital known as M10 and has since been discharged.
His parents and three siblings are believed to have survived the attack.
The video was filmed and circulated by an anti-government activist group, the Aleppo Media Centre, posted the clip to YouTube late, shortly after the boy was injured.
The AMC told the BBC the pictures of Omran had been taken in the rebel-held Qaterji district late on Wednesday, reportedly following Russian air strikes that killed at least three people and injured 12 others.
The Guardian reports the fight for control of the rebel-held city of Alepppo has intensified in recent weeks.
