Sources from New Delhi have added that a CNN anchor who broke down on air while trying to give details about this boy, another victim of civil war has perpetrated by the Islamic State in Syria and surrounding countries and the boy is Omran Daqneesh and he was being taken to hospital in an ambulance, after being pulled out from under the rubble of a building after terror airstrikes in Aleppo, Syria.
The British newspaper has also said that Omran was one of 12 children to receive medical treatment after the airstrikes. Omran's picture symbolizes the humanitarian crisis in Syria in the same way that the photo of toddler Aylan Qadri was brought home to the world the seriousness of the war.
Meanwhile the CNN anchor has said Omran is one of hundreds of thousands of children who are trying to escape war-torn Syria, where the death toll of children, in five years of conflict in Aleppo alone, is 4,500.
The Independent has written that at least three people were killed in the bombing in his neighborhood and the death toll of children in five years of conflict in Aleppo alone is 4,500.
