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    Syria: Sister grabbing baby dangling from bombed building

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    A striking picture of a five-year-old girl grabbing her dangling sister's T-shirt after strikes in northern has circulated on social media.

    The girls' horrified father is shown scrambling to rescue his daughters from the building's rubble in Ariha, Idlib, after government bombing of the town on Wednesday.

    “He [the photographer] couldn't see anything at first because of the rubble and dust – but then he heard the sounds of babies, children, and the father,” media outlet SY-24 told BBC News.

    Warning: This article contains a distressing image and video

    It has brought attention back to the war in Syria, where the Russian-backed government is trying to recapture Idlib from rebels and jihadists.

    The UN said last week that more than 350 civilians had been killed and 330,000 forced to flee their homes since fighting in northern Syria escalated on 29 April.

    Image caption A wheelchair in the rubble of destroyed buildings in Ariha on Wednesday

    Journalist Bashar al-Sheikh filmed the family trapped in the rubble when covering the air strikes on Ariha, before stopping to help them.

    Moments later, the…

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