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.

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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