Viral video shows Syrians pulled alive from rubble after air strike
A man and a young child were filmed as they were being pulled out from under the rubble alive following heavy regime airstrikes
A man and a young child were filmed as they were being pulled out from under the rubble alive following heavy regime airstrikes in the town of Saqba, near Damascus.
The video that shows the footage of their miraculous survival, posted on Twitter by Sakir Khader on Sunday, has already been retweeted 383 and favorited 164 times.
Miraculous: Man and child pulled alive from rubble after being buried following an air strike on #Saqba, Syria today. pic.twitter.com/H51MYD2CCc
— Sakir Khader (@sakirkhader) August 30, 2015
According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, five were killed in the Saqba airstrikes where the man and child were found.
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