What happened to the two amputees in Mehmet Aslan’s award-winning photo, which won Photo of the Year in 2021? There's good news.
Amplitude / Munzir al-Nazzal
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Photo of the Year Portrays Father-Son Amputee Embrace
The man in the photo, Munzir al-Nazzar, lost his right leg in a bomb blast in war-torn Syria. The five-year-old boy in his arms, his son Mustafa, is a congenital quadruple amputee. His birth disorder, tetra-amelia, came as a result of the medications his mother took during pregnancy to combat the effects of nerve agents...