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Saturday, 6 April 2013

Images of war: A child wanders amid the rubble and dust of a town he called home that now looks like the film set of an apocalyptic future


Standing amid the ruins, a child gazes at the devastation war has brought to his home in Syria.

Once Deir al-Zor was a busy town in the eastern part of the country, with a growing tourist industry, but when rebels 

moved in, it became a target for tyrant President Bashar Assad's forces.

Pounded day and night by government artillery, many of the beautiful buildings have been reduced to rubble by the 

blasts.


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In a scene looking like a film set from an apocalyptic future, fallen drainpipes lay across the road and dust fills the air.

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Rebels took the town's strategic military base and airport which was once linked to the Syrian capital of Damascus.

Now there is no childhood for the youngsters caught up in the conflict.


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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has called on foreign powers to take action as violence keeps escalating 

between the warring sides.

On Friday, five people died after a night of bombardment by regime forces as they tried to push back rebels in the 

suburbs of Damascus.

In Barzeh, three children, a woman and an elderly man were killed in overnight shelling, according to a local activist 

network.
Videos posted online, showed bodies of dead and injured under rubble.

Activists also reported shelling in the neighborhoods of Erbeen and Moudamieh, where four people, including two 

children, were discovered on their farm after overnight shelling.

In the suburb of Hammeh, it was reported that a man had died under torture after being detained by  regime forces.


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