![]() We are afraid to enter homes sometimes lest we find more people dead.” Our family is devastated,” the 27-year-old said. While Fadl recovers along with her son at her parents’ home in a town north of Khan Sheikoun, her husband is still looking for survivors from his extended family.Īlaa Alyousef said not all homes have been searched for survivors yet. READ MORE: Victims of Syrian chemical attack didn’t stand a chance, expert says That’s when Fadl finally collapsed, she said, only to wake up in a medical center. The courtyard was turned into a makeshift morgue where surviving relatives tried for hours to resuscitate loved ones already dead. The Alyousefs brought their dead to a family member’s home that was outside the worst attack area. “They were next to me but I couldn’t see them.” She said their eyes began hurting. “My husband, where are you? Oh, where are you my lovely son?” she recalled calling out. responseįadl remembered her panic when the rockets woke her. READ MORE: Donald Trump says Syria chemical attack crossed ‘many, many lines,’ refused to detail U.S. Instead, the 25-year-old English teacher was confronted face to face with the horror of it: A pick-up truck piled with the bodies of the dead, including many of her own relatives and students. READ MORE: Syria chemical weapon attack shows Bashar al-Assad free to act with impunityĪnother member of the family, Aya Fadl, recalled running from her house with her 20-month-old son in her arms, thinking she could find safety from the toxic gas in the street. The Alyousef family, one of the town’s main clans, was hardest hit. More than 80 people, including at least 30 children and 20 women, were killed in the chemical attack on the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun early Tuesday, and the toll could still rise. Each branch of the clan got its own trench. Then Abdel Hameed Alyousef took them to a mass grave where 22 members of his family were being buried. Stroking their hair, he choked back tears, mumbling, “Say goodbye, baby, say goodbye” to their lifeless bodies. The grief-stricken father cradled his 9-month-old twins, Aya and Ahmed, each in the crook of an arm. ![]()
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