A five-year-old boy who became a symbol of the horror and tragedy in Syria when a haunting image of him with blood and dust covering his face shocked the world has been reunited with his parents after they were separated in an air strike.
Omran Daqneesh sat dazed and confused when he was loaded into an ambulance after being pulled from the rubble of his home in Aleppo which was decimated in an air strike.
A nurse who treated the brave boy said Omran did not shed a single a tear until he laid eyes on his mother and father who joined him at the hospital a short time after his arrival, the
ABC reported.
Young Syrian boy Omran Daqneesh, aged five, was injured during air strikes in Aleppo
'He didn't say anything except to ask for his parents,' Abu Rajab from the Syrian American Medical Society said.
'Only then once Omran saw them did he start crying.'
Another nurse said the young boy - who was pulled from the rubble an hour after the strike - was in a 'daze' when he arrived at the hospital, known as M10.
'It was as if he was asleep. Not unconscious, but traumatized — lost,' said Mahmoud Abu Rajab according to the
New York Post.
Doctors feared the boy may have suffered internal injuries when he was pinned under the the remains of building, which collapsed an hour after he was rescued.
