As more government airstrikes rain down on the Syrian city of Douma, more footage keeps appearing documenting the aftermath.
On Twitter Tuesday, a video emerged of a young Syrian boy being dug out alive from piles of pale rubble. It's only 30 seconds long, but it manages to sum up what's going on right now in the war-torn city, about 10 km northeast of the capital Damascus.
If this sounds familiar, it's because it is. This isn't even the first major strike to hit this month — a bustling marketplace was hit last week, killing more than 100 people in several rounds of airstrikes.
The site has intermittently be the target of heavy government shelling all month. So tight a strain the bombardment's places on the makeshift medics trying to salvage the city, only 24 remain to do the job.
'Stop killing us' - the bleak, simple, powerful message from #Douma's remaining 24 medical workers #Syria pic.twitter.com/tuo79CEtVy
— Joseph Willits (@josephwillits) August 25, 2015
In the latest round of strikes, at least 200 were injured and 34 killed. casualty rate that pales in comparison to that of the marketplace bombing that prompted a UN condemnation earlier this month. But Syrian Civil Defense workers say they are still digging people just like the child in the video from swaths of rubble, so that number will likely rise.
Watch it below. Via Twitter.
A young #Syria|n boy pulled out alive from the rubble after being buried following an bombardment on #Douma. pic.twitter.com/FG6DX5i0Xe
— Sakir Khader (@sakirkhader) August 25, 2015
