A city wherAleppo: A city where snipers shoot children By Hannah Lucinda Smith Bustan al-Qasr, Aleppo, Syriae snipers shoot children Bustan al-Qasr is the last remaining crossing point between the rebel and regime-held sides of Aleppo. Snipers are rife and the atmosphere tense, yet hundreds are forced to use it every day to get to work, to study and buy food. "Today, at about midday, I treated someone who had been shot in the arm," Sam tells me. "He was a child, they usually are. I think that the snipers are aiming for kids, just kids." Sam, crouching behind sandbags at the Bustan al-Qasr crossing point, is the only doctor on hand to treat those targeted by the snipers. He is 25, speaks in an urbane North American drawl and has humorous eyes twinkling above his surgical mask. He is the son of Syrian exiles who settled in Canada. "I was in the final year of my studies to become a cardiac surgeon," he tells me. bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23696829
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 14:37:06 +0000