Father holding dead twins in his arms after poison gas attack Syria

- When the poison gas attack in northwest Syria arrived Tuesday 72 people dead including 20 children. One of the most gruesome pictures of the attack is that of father Abdul Hamid Youssef deceased twins who holds in his arms.

Besides twins Ahmed and Aiya father also lost his wife and a large part of his family. Even the man would now critically ill in hospital due to exposure to chemicals.

The pictures of the dead twins, a boy and a girl, are widely disseminated through social media. This would Abdul Hamid Youssef as have wanted to draw attention to the consequences of the horrific poison gas attack.

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