He lived with his mother, father, brother and sister in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a contact on the ground tells CNN.

One boy's story
The haunting, heartbreaking video of Omran, posted by the Aleppo Media Center, has been circulating on social media.
It shows a civil defense worker carrying the little boy to an ambulance. His cartoon character T-shirt is covered in dust, the left side of his face is bloody. He is silent despite the cacophony around him.
He was not crying at any point during the rescue.
"He was in extreme shock," according to a spokesman for the Aleppo Media Center, an activist group.
He looks dazed as he sits on the vehicle's orange seat, his hands on his lap, as he waits to be treated, as he waits for somebody to help him.
He raises his left hand to his eye and feels the area around his temple as if he has been hit there. He wipes his face and looks down at the blood.
But Omran has had a lucky escape -- he appears to have been one of the first pulled out of the rubble before his parents, the Aleppo Media Center says.

"World is silent"
On Wednesday, three more people died and at least 12 others were wounded in the rebel-held al Qaterchi neighborhood in eastern Aleppo, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media Center. One of those killed is believed to be a relative of Omran's family.
More than 18,000 civilians have been killed in Aleppo province from March 15, 2011 through August 18, 2016, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
More than 4,500 of those killed were children under the age of 18, the Observatory said Thursday, after the video of Omran went viral.

The whole world is silent to these crimes in Aleppo against women and children," said Sarouq.
"There are thousands of children like Omran who are being bombed daily, killed daily... Everyday this city is hit with every type of weapon, with every type of crime. The living conditions are terrible. The only route out of the city is totally unusable, it is shut. We call on the whole world this regime and these militias that are killing children and specifically the children of Aleppo. These crimes must be stopped in Aleppo."

Using survivors' accounts, the Amnesty report details the harrowing conditions for inmates and the brutal methods of torture including rape, sexual violence, flogging, burning and scalding.
UNICEF, the UN children's agency, estimates at least 10 million children have been affected by the conflict in Syria.

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Its just absolutely horrifying. How many years will this go on for can nothing be done to cease the torment these poor people go through on the daily. What horrors has he seen an will continue to bear witness too, makes my chest feel heavy and my eyes well up. Poor poor lil darling.

Truly heartbroken after watching the original report of this boy. The boom in his neighbours' house exploded while he was playing. Both of his parents died. He and another boy are the only survivors from this terroristic event. He was mute while he was sitting in the ambulance, and didn't even know what just happened to him and his "home"

Dozens of people got killed by a bomb in Middle East - the world treated it like three meals a day. Some people got killed in Paris - everyone's heart goes out to them.