Syrian crisis: Air strike kills the last clown of Aleppo, Anas al-Basha

By Eryk Bagshaw
Updated December 2 2016 - 8:18am, first published December 1 2016 - 1:40pm
Syrian Civil Defence workers carry a victim on a stretcher after strikes on the Jub al-Quba district in Aleppo where people were killed in the streets. Photo: White Helmets/AP
Syrian Civil Defence workers carry a victim on a stretcher after strikes on the Jub al-Quba district in Aleppo where people were killed in the streets. Photo: White Helmets/AP

He was the clown who brought joy to the lives of children in a city that has been described as going through a "slow-motion descent into hell".