Journalist kneels and cries next to the body of a baby killed by a bomb

A photo of a Syrian photojournalist kneeling and sobbing next to the body of a child victim is moving netizens.

The image of Habak carrying the baby boy to the ambulance and the scene of him crying helplessly afterwards is becoming an online phenomenon. Photo: Twitter

Abd Alkader Habak is a freelance photojournalist. Looking at his fierce appearance, no one would believe that he is a weak person.

Moreover, Habak is a photojournalist covering hot events, so he is very familiar with the bombs and violence that have been constant in his country for many years.

But this time he felt helpless before the ultimate cruelty. He seemed to lose all the strength of a strong man, and fell to his knees on the grass.

He cried, cried a lot, his body trembled as if all the pent-up frustration from years of professional activities witnessing violent scenes were now released.

Habak accompanied a convoy of Syrian civilians being evacuated near the city of Aleppo.

So he was right at the scene of the suicide bombing that targeted the convoy.

Most of those killed were residents of the two villages of al-Foua and Kafraya in Idlib province, in addition to a number of gunmen protecting the convoy.

The attack on April 15 killed at least 126 people, including at least 80 children.

Not only working at the scene, Habak also helped rescue children from the area still engulfed in smoke and fire caused by the bomb explosion.

Colleagues captured him running away with the child in his arms, the camera dangling from his right arm.

Habak knelt down and sobbed in anger and helplessness. Photo: Twitter

In the photo, he is seen kneeling and crying in anger and despair. Next to him is the body of a child who was a victim of the bombing and in the background are cars still burning fiercely.

"This is my colleague Abd Alkader Habak crying in helplessness and pain for the victims of the terrorist attack," the colleague who took the photo tweeted.

The photo quickly spread on social networks and then reached the mainstream press.

“Words cannot describe what happened. I was standing next to a children’s food truck and then just a few metres away there was a deafening explosion,” Abd Alkader Habak told Channel 4 News.

Even a tall man like Habak was thrown backwards by the force of the explosion.

Instinctively, he jumped up to find the machine to work.

He filmed the scene before him. Then he saw a little boy in need of help. He decided to stop filming and do what needed to be done.

"I saw the boy was still breathing. I picked him up in my arms and ran towards the ambulance. I really didn't know if he was going to survive, but I did what I could. I just knew he was taken to the hospital," Habak recalled.

Habak stopped working to save the baby. Photo: Twitter

On social networks, many people call Habak a hero, a journalist with humanity.

But he and his colleagues still have not found the answer to the question: Who is the perpetrator of the terrorist attack targeting civilians?

The attack targeted a convoy of buses carrying Shiite Muslims waiting to cross from rebel-held areas to government-held areas under an evacuation deal signed by the warring parties.

The agreement to evacuate civilians from towns around Aleppo is currently suspended.

According to the Red Crescent, about 3,700 civilians are trapped in Rashidin while about 2,200 others evacuated from the towns of Madaya and Zabadani are also trapped at another transit point.

According to Tuoi Tre