“The scene was horrible – especially seeing children wailing and dying in front of you,” Habak told. “So I decided along with my colleagues that we’d put our cameras aside and start rescuing injured people.” The first child he checked on was dead.

He ran towards another. Someone shouted at him to stay away – the child was already dead, they said. But he wasn’t. Habak could see the boy was barely breathing.

He picked him up and began to run towards safety. His camera was still on, recording the chaos. “This child was firmly holding my hand and looking at me,” he said.

An image taken by another photographer, Muhammad Alrageb, shows Habak dashing towards an ambulance, the child and his camera in his arms.

Algareb said he also helped some of the injured but then began taking photos.

“I wanted to film everything to make sure there was accountability,” he said. Also, he added, “I feel proud that there was a young journalist there helping save lives.”

Habak said he left the injured boy, who must have been only 6 or 7, at the ambulance. He doesn’t know if the boy survived. Then he ran back to scene of the bombing to help others. He came across another child on the ground. This one, too, was dead – one of 68 children killed in the attack. Overwhelmed, Habak collapsed.