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Where is Bana? Girl who tweeted from Aleppo is safely evacuated
Source: The Guardian
Where is Bana? Girl who tweeted from Aleppo is safely evacuated
Turkish NGO tweets picture of seven-year-old with aid worker
and says family have been rescued from besieged city
Nadia Khomami
Monday 19 December 2016 14.52 GMT
A seven-year-old girl whose Twitter account offered a glimpse into the violence and loss in besieged east Aleppo has been evacuated from the city following worldwide concern about her safety.
Fears for Bana al-Abed’s safety spiked when her account, run by her mother, Fatemah, was temporarily shut down earlier this month and it was unclear if the family were caught in warfare or captured by forces loyal the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.
The last message from east Aleppo, signed on Sunday night by her mother, was a plea to bring the family to safety: “Please please please make this ceasefire work & get us out now. We are so tired.”
Hours later, as a stalled evacuation resumed, a Turkish NGO said Bana had made it safely out. “This morning @AlabedBana was also rescued from Aleppo with her family. We warmly welcomed them,” the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) wrote on its Twitter account on Monday, sharing an IHH aid worker’s selfie picture with the girl.
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Turkish NGO tweets picture of seven-year-old with aid worker
and says family have been rescued from besieged city
Nadia Khomami
Monday 19 December 2016 14.52 GMT
A seven-year-old girl whose Twitter account offered a glimpse into the violence and loss in besieged east Aleppo has been evacuated from the city following worldwide concern about her safety.
Fears for Bana al-Abed’s safety spiked when her account, run by her mother, Fatemah, was temporarily shut down earlier this month and it was unclear if the family were caught in warfare or captured by forces loyal the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.
The last message from east Aleppo, signed on Sunday night by her mother, was a plea to bring the family to safety: “Please please please make this ceasefire work & get us out now. We are so tired.”
Hours later, as a stalled evacuation resumed, a Turkish NGO said Bana had made it safely out. “This morning @AlabedBana was also rescued from Aleppo with her family. We warmly welcomed them,” the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) wrote on its Twitter account on Monday, sharing an IHH aid worker’s selfie picture with the girl.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/19/where-is-bana-girl-who-tweeted-from-aleppo-is-safely-evacuated
[font size=1]Bana al-Abed is now in the countryside outside Aleppo CREDIT: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF FOUNDATION[/font]