article_snippet.sent: wits end trying to get my sister and her two young girls to a place of safety. '
article_snippet.sent: my sister and her two young girls could have got a flight just after the bombing campaign started but the flights which managed to leave were forced to run the gauntlet of surface-to-air missiles.'.
article_snippet.sent: I know the kids are very frightened.
article_snippet.sent: But getting there is dangerous as planes have been forced to run the gauntlet of surface-to-air missiles.