‘I Buried My Own Children’: A Syrian Father’s Grief<br />He turned the babies’ faces toward the camera and said, "tell them, ‘goodbye dad.’" APRIL 6, 2017<br />In an interview with a local activist, Mr. al-Yousef described the start of the airstrikes at 7 a.m. "I took my wife<br />and children and left the house," he said, through choking sobs.<br />APRIL 6, 2017<br />close to my heart," Mr. al-Yousef said in the interview. that I saw Ahmad and Aya, and carried them<br />By MEGAN SPECIAAPRIL 6, 2017<br />Aya and Ahmad, 9-month-old twins, were among the 86 people killed in Tuesday’s gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria.<br />" He said his children began to cough and he handed them to their mother and told her to flee the town.<br />that As we were leaving, just about five minutes later, we started to smell nasty smells.<br />APRIL 6, 2017<br />He walked through the graves, calling out the names of other family members who were also killed<br />and buried in the graveyard, pausing at each, and sobbing.<br />Their father, Abdul Hameed al-Yousef, asked a photographer to take pictures as he held their bodies.<br />I buried my own children." He said he had lost at least 25 members of his extended family in the attack.
