Covered in dust and still
visibly distressed, a little girl is carried away to an ambulance in Aleppo's
al Shaar district.
It follows earlier rescues
in the city of a girl and a baby.
The young Syrian girl has
been pulled alive from underneath rubble after an airstrike that apparently
killed 24 people.
Footage filmed by the
Syrian Civil Defence (SDF) rescue team shows the terrified youngster screaming
as they try to keep her calm and pass her water to keep her alive.
After drilling through
concrete for four hours they create enough space to reach her and eventually
prise the girl out through a gap.
The SDF, nicknamed the
White Helmets, said 400 people have been killed in air attacks in Aleppo since
a ceasefire brokered by the US and Russia failed.
The White Helmets named the
girl as Ghazal Qasim and said she was taken to hospital.
The Syrian Civil Defence
claimed that the attack had carried out by the Russians.
Another 15 people, mostly
women and children, were said to have been injured.
Forces loyal to Syrian President
Bashar al Assad have carried out a barrage of air strikes on eastern Aleppo
since Syria's regime announced last week it was trying to retake all of the
divided city.
Russian forces are also
understood to have been involved in the air attacks. The United States
threatened on Wednesday to stop engaging with Russia over the conflict as a
result of the escalating attacks on Aleppo.
Among the targets hit on
Wednesday were the two largest hospitals in Aleppo's opposition-controlled
east.
UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon denounced the strikes on the hospitals as war crimes. The Russian
defence ministry said Moscow would be prepared to restart talks with the United
States, but a Syrian opposition official said a political solution to the
conflict was "no longer a viable option".
Moscow and Washington have
blamed each for the collapse of a truce to allow aid to enter Aleppo.
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