I read the article and it is indeed a terrible thing that happened to the boy. Not just the arms, those burns have to be horrible, and I wonder if he will survive. I guess it depends on the level of his care and the extent of the burns but my guess is that they extend over his whole lower body. If that’s the case it would be questionable whether he would survive even with the best of care.
I feel very sorry for him. What a horrbile thing. The pain, the trauma, the loss of family, the loss of both arms, and a very limited and perhaps abbreviated future.
I’m not sure I accept the story that is being told at face value though. I don’t know whether I doubt it, or not, but I am skeptical.
I am not an expert in wounds or trauma by any way shape or means, but I wonder how a bomb would do what has been done to that poor kid. Specifically, his face is fine. I don’t understand how a bomb can explode with such force that it would remove a person’s arms but leave their face and upper body intact. The arms are on opposing sides of the body. How does what is in the middle get left intact?
Additionally, there is the severe burns on the lower body, but not the upper body. It looks like his body was scorched by fire.
His injuries appear to be the loss of two arms, which would seemingly to me represent localized trauma, or perhaps something else that I will get to in a moment. The burns suggest he was partially shielded from fire.
Not being a forensic expert this doesn’t seem consistent with a bomb.
The scenario that seems consistent with his injuries is that he was trapped in a fire of some kind and found partial shelter. Survival instinct will cause him to lodge as much of his upper body in the shelter he finds and use his arms to ward off the fire, or push objects out of his way or onto his lower body to protect it. In any event it is likely that his arms would be most exposed and damaged in attempting to survive a conflagration.
It also appears to me from the consistency of the bandaging that his arms were amputated, not blown off. That too, would be consistent with the aftermath of a fire.
So, I wonder if it was a burning vehicle or building in which he sustained his injuries. I suppose that is possibly the aftermath of a bomb, but it doesn’t look like a bomb blast did the damage to the child.
