

Habak said he was not sure whether the boy survived as he handed him over to emergency services and went back to the blast site. Instead of clicking an award-worthy picture, Abd Alkader Habak chose to rescue the child, becoming the internet’s hero. (Waseem Andrabi/HT Photo)Ī videographer from Aleppo was caught in the middle of a suicide bombing in Syria and saw a bleeding child. An image showing his five-year-old daughter weeping at his wreath-laying ceremony in Srinagar moved social media. Assistant sub-inspector Abdul Rashid was shot at by suspected militants in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district and died of his injuries at the hospital. It takes only one picture to see the pain. Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir), August 2017 These pictures were so powerful, they ended up being remembered as the lasting faces of those historical moments. Here are some of the most moving images from 2017 so far that capture heartbreak, hope and death in their most vulnerable form. There’s something striking about a photograph capturing pain and defiance, happiness and loss in a way words can’t, making it impossible to look away. A crying Rohingya mother in a yellow headscarf cradling her five-week-old infant son who died after their boat capsized on Thursday is one of the most powerful Reuters images of Muslim refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar.
