[Excerpt] Four-year-old Aysha was amazingly pulled from the rubble but her parents, grandparents, uncles, aunties and younger brother all perished in the blast.
Mazin Younis, who has lived in Altrincham for 20 years, was visiting friends in the town when he heard of Aysha’s plight.
He arranged for her to come to Manchester with one of her uncles, Mohammed Aljasin, to be treated at Wythenshawe Hospital for a broken shoulder and broken ankle bone, as well as shrapnel wounds.
Now, thanks to the skill and dedication of medical staff, she is on the road to recovery and will one day return to Iraq.
Mr Younis, chair of the Iraqi League in Britain, said: “I visited about four or five different homes that had been flattened during the American bombing in October and people kept telling me there was one survivor. Eventually I found her being cared for by her grandparents.” [Read More]
Rose Gentle, the woman who lost her son in Iraq and brought presents to Aysha in the hospital, is pictured here.