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This video was taken on August 18 2016 following the bombing of the "Al Qatrgi" neighborhood in Aleppo by the Syrian Government. The shelling killed and wounded many of the residents of the neighborhood. In the aftermath of the bombing rescue workers dug out three children from the rubble, one of which was Omran Daqneesh, dubbed the "The Boy in the Rubble" after images of him taken from this video circulated online.

Video shot on a GoPro camera by a freelance photographer accompanying the Italian Navy on a rescue mission where 60 Italian Navymen rescues 998 immigrants from boats in the Mediterranean Sea just 30 km off the coast of Libya.
The men, women and children rescued from the smugglers' boat were from Syria, Eritrea, Mali, Palestine and Afghanistan.

Nearly 1,000 refugees from the oppressed Rohingya minority in Myanmar, and economic migrants from Bangladesh have washed ashore in Aceh, Indonesia after harrowing journeys drifting in the sea, being abandoned by their traffickers.

Refugees sit in a warehouse after they were rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

Refugees pick through donated clothing after they were rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar on Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

Indonesian police keep an eye on Bangladeshi refugees two days after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

Refugees sit in a warehouse after they were rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

Refugees from Bangladesh rest for two days after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A refugee sits in a holding facility set up by Indonesian officials at the fishing port of Langsa after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying 712 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Saturday May 16, 2015 in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

Refugees rest in a warehouse after they were rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

Refugees sit in a medical tent receiving IV's after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying 712 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Saturday May 16, 2015 in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A refugee being treated with an IV is helped to a cot after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying 712 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Saturday May 16, 2015 in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A refugee lies in a medical tent receiving an IV after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying 712 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Saturday May 16, 2015 in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

Mohammed Dabio, a Rohingya from Bangladesh shows wounds he says he received during beatings by smugglers as he sits in a medical tent after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying 712 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Saturday May 16, 2015, in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A sick Rohingya refugee from Myanmar weeps in the warehouse where she has been staying for two days after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A Rohingya refugee from Myanmar looks after her sick baby in the warehouse where she has been staying for two days after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A Rohingya refugee from Myanmar looks after her sick baby in the warehouse where she has been staying for two days after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A refugee from Bangladesh escorts a sick man out of a warehouse where they and other refugees are staying for two days after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

Refugees sit in a warehouse after they were rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A Rohingya refugee from Myanmar weeps in the warehouse where she is staying two days after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A man walks his friend being treated with an IV drip to the toilets in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities two days after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A refugees draw water from a well to wash with after they were rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 17, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A refugee looks out at the sea at a holding facility set up by Indonesian officials at the fishing port of Langsa after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying 712 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Saturday May 16, 2015 in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

Refugees pick clothes from a pile of donated clothing in a holding facility set up by Indonesian officials at the fishing port of Langsa after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying 712 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Saturday May 16, 2015 in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A refugee is documented at the fishing port of Langsa after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying 712 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Saturday May 16, 2015 in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

A refugee weeps in an aid tent a day after being rescued from a sinking boat carrying over 700 refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar Sunday May 16, 2015 in a makeshift holding facility set up by Indonesian authorities in Langsa, Indonesia.(Photo by Ed Wray)

Night shots from the Yemeni city of al-Buqa in the northern province of Saada show the aftermath of an airstrike. The footage features rescue workers searching the rubble of destroyed buildings. Later it shows a victim of the airstrike being carried away via ambulance.

BROLL
March 18, 2015 -- Tunis, Tunisia
Twenty people were killed, mostly tourists, and many more wounded when gunmen attacked the popular Bardo museum in Tunis. Tunisian security services deployed around the museum's buildings prior to entering them, allegedly trading fire with militants inside before killing two of them and rescuing hostages. Other gunmen are believed to be at large.

Tunis, Tunisia, 18 March 2015. Twenty people were killed, mostly tourists, and many more wounded when gunmen attacked the popular Bardo museum in Tunis. They took others hostage, some of whom were evacuated as members of the security services deployed around the museum's buildings prior to entering them. Security forces allegedly traded fire with the militants inside before killing two of the unknown number of gunmen. Others are still thought to be at large, and one officer is reported to have died.

Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (QZ8501/AWQ8501) was a scheduled international passenger flight, operated by AirAsia Group affiliate Indonesia AirAsia, from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. On 28 December 2014, the aircraft operating the route, an Airbus A320-216, crashed into the Java Sea during bad weather, killing all 155 passengers and seven crew on board. Two days after the crash, debris from the aircraft and human remains were found floating in the Java Sea. Searchers located wreckage on the sea floor beginning on 3 January, and the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered by 13 January. The search for bodies ended in March 2015 after recovery of 106 of the 162 bodies.

On March 18th 2015, after almost 3 months of search and rescue activity, an Indonesia SAR officer announces the closing of the operation, with total 97 victim found and identified. The rest of the victims remain lost at sea and it is impossible to find them as their bodies decompose and become very hard to find. The families of the victims threw flowers into the sea as their condolences to their loved ones.

Money found on the fuselage of Air Asia QZ8501 is handed over to the Indonesian Air Asia Director before he hands it over to the family of victim to whom it belongs.

A sunken passenger vessel sits grounded on Kamarjani island, near Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 20 January 2015.
Local people say that there are many new islands emerging in the Brahmaputra river as a result of changing water levels. As a result, passenger vessels which sank a couple of years ago and were not recovered sometimes surface as water levels change.

A coffin is prepared at Kalimantan Hospital for a victim of the AirAsia plane crash.

The Indonesian Air Force prepare to transfer the body of a crash victim to Surabaya Airport.

Victims of AirAsia QZ8501 on an air plane as they are transferred to Surabaya for identification.

Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (QZ8501/AWQ8501) was a scheduled international passenger flight, operated by AirAsia Group affiliate Indonesia AirAsia, from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. On 28 December 2014, the aircraft operating the route, an Airbus A320-216, crashed into the Java Sea during bad weather, killing all 155 passengers and seven crew on board. Two days after the crash, debris from the aircraft and human remains were found floating in the Java Sea. Searchers located wreckage on the sea floor beginning on 3 January, and the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered by 13 January. The search for bodies ended in March 2015 after recovery of 106 of the 162 bodies.

Indonesian Air Force mechanics fix a broken helicopter during the search and rescue operation for AirAsia Flight 8501.

The search and rescue team pray before the beginning their mission.

A high tech Russian aircraft arrives at Pangkalan Bun-Kalimantan in order to aid the search and rescue mission for AirAsia Flight 8501.