Horrors of war-ravaged Syria are exposed by heartbreaking image of wounded boy, 5, sitting alone in an ambulance after a deadly airstrike

Heartbreaking images of a young Syrian boy who was injured when his home in Aleppo was destroyed in an airstrike have shocked the world, showing the reality and tragedy of the war in Syria. In one image Omran Daqneesh is seen sitting dazed in an ambulance chair, after being pulled from the rubble of his house. Footage shows the lost child wiping his dusty forehead with his hand, before realising he is bleeding, and he rests his hands back in his lap. Omran was taken to a nearby hospital with three other children, the whereabouts of his parents unknown.