The cameraman had been filming the chaos and bloodshed as Russian-backed pro-government forces bombed the besieged, rebel-held enclave near Damascus
THIS is the dramatic moment a cameraman found his own screaming family buried under rubble in Syria as he filmed the carnage of another Assad bombing blitz.
Footage shows the man desperately trying to rescue his grandmother, pregnant aunt and four cousins from the wreckage of a block of flats in eastern Ghouta.
He was filming the horror unfolding around him during the Russian-backed Syrian government air raids when he heard the screams of his own injured family members.
Putin's military is again backing Assad's forces in blitzing rebel area as it did in when they bombed the rebel-held half of Syria's largest city, Aleppo, into oblivion during late 2016.
Back then tens of thousands of civilians were forced to flee their homes and many have been unable to return.
Hundreds more were killed in indiscriminate shelling and bombardment.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier this week that the assault on Aleppo could serve as a model for the military campaign in eastern Ghouta, which he said was necessary to uproot al-Qaida-linked militants from the area.
Hundreds more have now been killed in just a few days as tyrant Assad sets his sights on the capital.
In new GoPro footage, featured in an ITN news report, a cameraman reveals how he scrambled through the rubble to help his relatives following the latest barrage of bombs.
As he lifted up the debris, a woman with a bloodied face could be seen crying out in pain. A badly injured little boy's face can also be seen.
The video, provided by the Syrian American Medical Society, then shows the man desperately running towards a hospital with a child in his arms.
Whether his family survived is unclear at this stage.
But doctors operating in the area tonight said they were unable to keep up with the staggering number of casualties, amid a ferocious bombing campaign by government forces that has targeted hospitals, apartment blocks and other civilian sites.
At least 310 were killed and hundreds of others wounded in recent days.
The bombardment has forced many among the nearly 400,000 residents to sleep in basements and makeshift shelters.
But no one is safe because Russian made bunker-busting bombs are reportedly being dropped.
Rescue workers have already spent days digging out survivors from the wreckage of bombed out buildings.
Now they are becoming overwhelmed and civilians, many of them children, face being buried alive or dying a slow death after being entombed in rubble.
Dr Waleed Awata described a desperate, chaotic scene at the small hospital where he works.
He said: "We have to give them IVs and treat them on the floor.”
The hospital he battles to save lives in was struck on Tuesday by barrel bombs.
These crude, explosives-filled oil drums are dropped from helicopters at high altitudes.
Like many hospitals in the area, patients had been moved into the cellars to shield them from airstrikes.
The UN’s regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria, Panos Moumtzis, said he was "alarmed" by the very high number of casualties.
He said: "It's heartbreaking to think of children, women, and elderly who are in need, unable to be evacuated, and in a situation of fear, hiding in basements and not being able to go out."
Paul Donohoe, the Beirut-based media officer for International Rescue Committee, said: "People are terrified.
“We need a cease-fire immediately because of the horrible, horrendous number of people who have died so far.”
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