Five years on as painful moments of Qamishlo Explosion still resound

Dark clouds were covering the whole scene, Ferhan and Abdullah were both covered with blood and their bodies were riddled with shrapnel without even knowing the details of the incident.0

27 July, 2021 05:14

QAMISHLO SAMIR AZZAM

Ferhan and Abdullah are mere examples of few persons unbelievably survived the Qamishlo Explosion that hit the Western Part of the city on July 27, 2016, exactly at 09:20 that cost the lives of 62 people and the injury of 176 others in a booby -trapped lorry carried out by ISIS mercenaries.

For people of the city that used to listen to the popular singer Mihemed Sheikho that day was not a regular one, death hit the Western Quarter of the city as people were going to their daily business and works when a lorry driven by an ISIS suicide bomber exploded causing immeasurable destruction that changed features of the street of the Western Quarter. All bodies remained under the debris of buildings that were razed to the ground.

Ferhan, a survivor, narrates to ANHA the appalling moments he came across on that day when the explosion hit the city.

Ferhan says that he felt as if he was stricken by a lightening, then he found himself on the ground, as blood running out of his ears and his head full of shrapnel then he was hospitalized by people as many charred bodies were laying on the street.

In the 'dark day' as dubbed by Ferhan on which he lost his beloved ones, it was told on the spot that the explosion was carried out by ISIS mercenaries to strike at the Kurdish people due to the development the administration was attaining in all areas and cities. At the time our fighters were on the fronts to expel mercenaries from our areas so they resorted to cowardice for revenge.

Abdullah Qicho, a survivor too, narrates the painful moments on that day, '' I was pushed to the other side of the street due to the intensity of the explosion''.

Abdullah says '' I saw nothing but my body was covered with blood I was taken to hospital, my abdomen and hands were riddled with shrapnel, the hospital was overcrowded with martyrs and injured persons so I was transferred into another in which I remained 10 days to remove shrapnel from my body''.

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