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Kurdish Parents' Tragedy: One Child Killed, Two Disabled in Syria Shelling

Rebaz Majeed

   SULAYMANIYAH, IRAQI KURDISTAN / WASHINGTON - "I am not going to go to
   school anymore after losing my leg. People will make fun of me,"
   screamed Sara Yusuf Hossein, 8, as her mother tried to console her.
   Sara lost her right leg and her left leg was fractured when a rocket
   hit her home in Qamishli, Syria, on Oct. 10. Her older brother
   Muhammed, 13, died immediately in the strike, and her younger brother
   Ahmed, 7, lost vision in his right eye.
   They are some of the victims of the conflict that broke out in
   northeastern Syria last month as a result of the Turkish military
   operation against Kurdish forces.
   Nariman Adil, the children's mother, recalled to VOA the moment the
   rocket landed on their home. The children were playing in their front
   yard in theQudorbakneighborhood of Qamishli when the shelling happened.