Rebel rockets scar west Aleppo residents
Aleppo (Syria) (AFP) - Syrian teenager Diaa al-Din Hassan lay in a hospital bed in western Aleppo, his eyes alive but the rest of his body motionless, paralysed after a rebel rocket attack last week.
"I was on my way to work when a shell fell on the Maysaloon neighbourhood. I hit the ground and lost consciousness," the fourteen-year-old told AFP in a shared room at the Razi Hospital.
A piece of shrapnel penetrated his spinal cord, paralysing him from the neck down.
Diaa left school two years ago to become his family's only breadwinner, earning a meagre salary at a small sewing factory.
Blinking away her tears, his mother said she tried to warn him not to venture out when the rebel shelling on their west Aleppo neighbourhood became heavy, but without success.
"I have to go to work because I'm the breadwinner. If I don't go, we won't eat," Diaa insisted.
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Rebel fire has intensified in recent weeks after Syria's army launched an all-out assault that has seen it seize three quarters of the one-time opposition stronghold.
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