Aleppo boy’s family rescued from rubble

The family of a young Syrian boy, whose picture became the symbol of the suffering of civilians living through the country’s civil war, have been pulled out of the rubble of their home.

When five-year-old Omran Daqneesh was filmed in an ambulance on Wednesday evening, covered in dust and blood from a devastating airstrike, the fate of his parents and siblings was unclear.

Rescue workers described how they had pulled the little boy from his destroyed family home after it was hit by the latest round of bombing in opposition-held areas of Aleppo.

Doctors reported eight people killed in the strike, including five children, but Omran’s family was not among the victims.

His three siblings, aged one, six and 11, as well as his mother and father, were pulled injured but alive from their partially destroyed block of flats.

The building has since collapsed leaving the Daqneesh family homeless.

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