Shocking Image Emerges of Injured Syrian Boy
COSTELLO: In Turkey, three police officers are dead and at least 217 people are wounded after an explosion at a police station. It was the second bombing targeting police in eastern Turkey in the last 24 hours. It's prompted the nation to raise its level of alarm. Turkey's prime minister says Kurdish militants are responsible for the attack. I'd like you to stop what you're doing just for a minute so you can take a look at this picture. It's a powerful image. You know, we hear about the ongoing battle in Syria and the fight against ISIS all the time but we don't often hear about the people who are living it and barely surviving it. That picture of a dazed, shell shocked boy named Omran in the back of an ambulance. I can just say it's sparking outrage and sorrow across the world. He's sitting in that ambulance as the chaos continues around him. Just waiting for somebody to come get him. Waiting for somebody to help. CNN's Nima Elbagir joins me now with more on the story and the story behind the image. Good morning.</s>NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We spoke to one of the men who helped rescue little Omran and who actually took the still image of him sitting in the ambulance. And he was able to describe to us what was going on behind what you see there. He said it had taken nearly an hour to dig Omran out from under that rubble and in that moment when you see him sitting in the ambulance, he still didn't know whether the rest of his family had survived. He didn't know whether anyone would be coming to get him. And as he reaches to touch his face, I think this is the moment that broke so many people's hearts, that a 5-year-old boy could touch his face, come away with blood on his fingers and not respond. But still be completely impassive. And the young man that we spoke to, the activist we spoke to said that he thought Omran was in extreme shock. But he also said something which broke my heart. He said but Omran is as old as the Syrian conflict itself, he is 5 years old. And so this is probably all that he has known. And so while he is also incredibly traumatized, he also doesn't know anything else other than the sirens and the air strikes and the air strikes and the rubble. His mother and older brother are in critical condition. And because of the situation in Aleppo, they have had to be smuggled out of Aleppo and they're seeking medical care elsewhere. And those survivors that you see digging in the rubble, they were extraordinarily brave because so often, as we've heard described in these attacks, these are double tap attacks so the bombs are dropped and then they return again sometimes. I also want to say, Carol, to anyone out there who's watching this, they can go to CNN.com/impact. There's so many ways there that they can reach out and try and help Omran and the thousands of other Syrian children who are trapped in these conditions.</s>COSTELLO: Any word on who is responsible for the bombing?</s>ELBAGIR: Well, we were told by this activist that it was a combination of regime and Russian planes. And today at the U.N. the Syrian envoy will be trying to get those very same people, the Syrian government and the Russians, and others around the table to try to pull together a cease-fire.</s>COSTELLO: Nima Elbagir, just heartbreaking. The next hour of NEWSROOM after a break.