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(6 Apr 2017) Many of the victims of the chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun in northern Syria came from a single extended family, the Alyousef clan.
Alaa Alyousef lost around two dozens of his relatives.
On Thursday, he told The Associated Press that three days after the attack, he and other survivors are still struggling with their vision and getting to sleep.
Alyousef knows he was lucky to survive.
But he worries about the long-term effects of the attack, the most brutal to hit his hometown since Syria's war began six years ago.
Other members of the clan are having a much more difficult time.
Alyousef's cousin, Abdel Hameed Alyousef, lost his wife and the couple's nine-month-old twins.
According to Alyousef, he is struggling to cope with the reality of his loss and had a nervous breakdown overnight.
He was also struggling to see, and Alyousef said his cousin's condition was "very, very bad".
Walking through his devastated town, Alyousef denies suggestions that the chemicals that killed so many of his relatives were released when government forces struck a rebel base where they had been stored.
"There are no military points here, no Free Syrian Army or Islamic factions here, for there to be armouries," he says.
Instead, all Alyousef experiences as he films his neighbourhood is the haunting memories of his dead relatives' laughs and jokes.
He points out a field where he used to play football with his cousins.
Now, he says, it's become "a field for the bodies of my brothers, cousins, relatives and loved ones".

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