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The kid with the “crying eyes” was killed in Yemen not in Syria or Egypt

The kid with the “crying eyes” was killed in Yemen not in Syria or Egypt

Ahmad Primo Ahmad Primo   Sunday 26th November 2017

Ahmad Primo Ahmad Primo   Sunday 26th November 2017

Social media pages and Arab news websites shared a photo of a dead kid with tears in his eyes.

Photo publishers said the kid was one of the victims in al-Raouda mosque attack in al-Arish city in Egypt on Friday which killed and injured dozens of civilians.

The photo was also shared lately on social media personal accounts as for a kid was killed in an airstrike on an area outside Assad regime control.

Verify-Sy searched for the source of the photo and it turns out it is not from Egypt nor Syria but from Yemen.

According to source who told Verify-Sy the kid in the photo called Ellias and he was killed on 23/5/2017 in Houthis militia shelling on al-Daboua’a neighborhood in Taiz in Yemen.

The source said the photo was taken by AFP photo/grapher called Ahmad al-Basha and he published it on his account on Facebook.

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