BEIRUT — The brother of a wounded Syrian boy who gained international attention has died three days after suffering serious injuries in an air raid on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, opposition activists said Sunday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Aleppo-based activist Baraa al-Halaby said that Ali Daqneesh, 10, died on Saturday from wounds suffered in the same airstrike on a rebel-held neighborhood in Aleppo.
Syrian activists released haunting footage showing Ali’s brother Omran Daqneesh, 5, rescued from a damaged building in the aftermath of the airstrike late Wednesday. Omran was treated and later discharged.
The Halab Today opposition TV station posted a photo of Ali in a hospital with a tube coming out of his mouth, saying he later died from his wounds.
Omran was rescued along with his three siblings and his parents from the rubble of their apartment building, according to photojournalist Mahmoud Raslan, who took the memorable photo. The building collapsed about an hour after the family was rescued.
The activists reported fresh air raids on Aleppo and its suburbs on Sunday, inflicting casualties.