The air rips through Kassem Eid's throat and pierces his lungs. A searing pain claws at his stomach and a panicked neighbour carries her two small kids to him, gasping: They're dying.
It was early morning on August 21, 2013 when bombs loaded with a nerve agent fell on the Syrian capital of Damascus.In his book My Country: A Syrian Memoir, Kassem Eid describes the moment it began at 4.45am.I tried my best to inhale — once, twice, three times.
I rushed to the bathroom and slapped water all over my face. I heard a din outside — screams from my neighbours. Dozens of men, women and children were writhing in pain on the ground. Other people were shouting for doctors, praying and calling to Allah in the heavens, pleading for their fallen loved ones to start breathing again.As I moved closer, I realised that it was a small boy with his face to the ground. I ran to turn him over.
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