Omran Daqneesh

Syrian boy Aleppo

Photographer who took Omran’s picture in Aleppo: ‘I hope all photos of children and attacks in Syria go viral’

Conflict

“The White Helmet carried the boy to the ambulance and laid him on the chair. I kept filming. It is then that I realized how traumatized the boy was and I changed the camera from filming to take a still picture.” Here’s Mahmoud Roslan’s full account of how it happened.

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