AKIPRESS.COM - Mazin Yusif, 13, sauntered around the hospital with the confidence of a regular, taking us from room to room, introducing the people in each ward, CNN reported.

He arrived here at the Reyhanli State Hospital 24 hours ago, one of around 30 Syrians rushed to this southern Turkish town near the Syrian border after what appears to have been a chemical attack by Syrian warplanes on rebel-held Khan Shaikhoun in Idlib province. 

The attack killed at least 70 people, including children, one of the deadliest since the Syrian war began six years ago.

The World Health Organization said victims bore the signs of exposure to nerve agents. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's military categorically denied using chemical weapons and blamed "terrorist" groups for the carnage.

Mazin wore new clothing, crisp blue jeans and a red, white and blue jacket -- he'd lost his own in the attack. His eyes were blood shot, his voice hoarse.

He first introduced his grandmother, 55-year old Aisha Al-Tilawi, who lay on a bed with an oxygen mask on her mouth, her chest rising and falling quickly.

When asked what had happened, she was almost matter-of-fact. "Around six in the morning, the plane struck," she recalled. "Entire families were killed."
She said she saw blue and yellow after the bomb dropped near her home. "We started choking, felt dizzy, then fainted. Mazin was trying to wake up his grandfather," she said.

"At 6:30 in the morning there was an air strike," he said, in the same way others might tell you it was cold outside. Mazin was seven years old when the uprising in Syria began, and had probably seen more than his fair share of air strikes.

"I saw the explosion in front of my grandfather's house. I ran to their house barefoot, I saw my grandfather sitting... suffocated," he said, putting his head to the side and rolling his eyes up. "Then I became dizzy."

When I woke up, I found myself in bed, without clothing." He expression reflecting the confusion he must have felt waking up naked in a strange place.

"I thought I was in the clinic in Khan Shaikhoun. I turned to the guy in the bed next to me and said 'we need to get out of here. The planes will hit us again.'"