Dramatic footage has emerged of a boy being rescued after being trapped in the rubble of a building bombed Sunday night in Aleppo, Syria.
Footage shows a child being rescued after being trapped in the rubble of a bombed building on Sunday night in Aleppo pic.twitter.com/udQZjr3Jgt
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) October 18, 2016
The boy, who appears to be a teenager, was trapped by his legs under wreckage and hanging from the edge of a building, most of which had been destroyed by an air strike said to be on the al-Qaterji neighbourhood in the east of the besieged city.
Rescuers brought a crane to reach the boy and with the aid of a ladder supporting his body weight, gradually pulled his legs free and carried him down.
The White Helmets rescue service later said on Twitter that the boy was recovering well.
A rescue operation from Qaterji yesterday, the child is well now. Thanks to the SCD heroes in #Aleppo.https://t.co/vzmf1K110Z pic.twitter.com/ozLlqClZcd
— The White Helmets (@SyriaCivilDef) October 17, 2016
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 17 people were killed in attacks by Russian jets on Sunday night in the al-Qarterji district of rebel-held Aleppo.
That included five children, it said.
Russia says strikes on Aleppo have stopped
In a further attack 14 members of the same family were killed in an air strike in rebel-held eastern Aleppo yesterday, emergency service workers said, as the Syrian government pursued its Russian-backed campaign to capture opposition-held areas of the city.
A list of the dead published by the Civil Defence included several infants, among them two six-week-old babies and six other children aged eight or below.
The Civil Defence identified the jets as Russian. The attack hit the city's al-Marjeh area.
The campaign has killed several hundred people since it started last month after the collapse of a truce brokered by Russia and the United States.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 448 people in air strikes in eastern Aleppo since then, including 82 children.
Syrian and Russian militaries say they only target militants.
