This photo provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Douma Revolution, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens look on as they stand in front of a burned vehicle that set on fire by an attack of Syrian government airstrike, in Douma, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, August 20, 2015. In fact, while ISIS is blamed for 1,131 civilian deaths so far this year, Assad’s forces are to blame for 7,894, the report says.
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Mr Rayhan’s family believed after he failed to come home from the market that he was among that number, and began mourning him that day.
Wakes typically last three days – and according to Middle East Eye, Mr Rayhan arrived just in time to interrupt the final day of his own.
Pictures of his ecstatic relatives were posted on a Facebook page run by he Eastern Ghouta branch of the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a group of opposition activists.
The story is not too unusual with the rampant attacks the country suffers, one expert told the Independent.
‘It often happens with children – I have heard of three-year-old children who have been mourned by their families and then found alive in rubble’. SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP/Getty Images Rescuers pull a victim from the wreckage at a market in Douma, a suburb of Damascus.
“It is natural for the Syrian government to use the appropriate tools to defeat terrorism”, he said.
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The White House condemned the attack in a statement calling it “another reminder of the inhumane acts perpetrated daily by the Asad regime against the Syrian people.”
