CNN Anchor Fights Back Tears While Reporting On Fighting In Syria

By Fred Maxwell
August 18, 2016 at 5:13pm

CNN news anchor Kate Bolduan struggled to hold back tears while showing a video of a young child from Syria who was maimed from an attack during the ongoing fighting in the country.

“This is Omran. He is alive. We wanted you to know,” Bolduan said through tears.

The video, taken after an airstrike from an unknown source bombed a neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, shows rescuers freeing survivors trapped underneath the wreckage from the bombing.

5-year-old Omran was one of the survivors.

Bolduan remarked that while those viewing from afar may cry when seeing such destruction, Omran, covered in dirt and blood, sat quietly in the ambulance without shedding a tear.

“He doesn’t cry once,” she said, “that little boy is in total shock. He’s stunned — inside his home one moment and the next, lost in the flurry and the fury of war and chaos.”

Bolduan reported that the strike came just one week after a letter from 32 doctors in Syria was sent to President Barack Obama, pleading for assistance.

“We do not need tears or sympathy or even prayers: we desperately need a zone free from bombing over eastern Aleppo to stop the attacks, and international action to ensure Aleppo is never besieged again,” the doctors wrote to the president.

During the 5-year-old civil war between the government regime and rebel forces, over 250,000 lives have been lost. At least 4,500 of those killed were children from Aleppo, Bolduan reported.

Omran, along with his mother, father, brother and sister survived the bombing.

He was treated for his injuries and has since been released from the hospital to rejoin his family.

“Omran was in the same daze and shock you saw he had when he was in the ambulance. He was in the same situation, he did not cry at all,” the physician who treated Omran told CNN.

At least three people were killed in the bombing.

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