Brother of rescued Syrian boy dies of injuries

BEIRUT: The older brother of a Syrian boy whose image, dazed and bloodied after an air strike, shocked people around the world, has died in Aleppo from wounds sustained in the same incident. Ali Daqneesh, 10, was wounded in Wednesday’s air strike, according to UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and a witness who was present at the time of the death along with the boys’ father. “He was martyred while in hospital as a result of the same bombardment that their house was subjected to,” said Besher Hawi, the spokesperson for the local council of Aleppo. He had internal bleeding and organ damage, doctors told the witness.

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