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A sobbing boy has been filmed as he asked a nurse whether he will die after being caught up in a chlorine gas attack in Syria.

Talking between taking breaths from an oxygen masks the boy, who is no older than 12, is in tears as he describes what happened and asks whether he will survive.

The harrowing video was shared by Syria Charity and published by AJ+ on Twitter, where it has been retweeted more than 35,000 times.

In it, he cries uncontrollably beneath a Independent Doctors Association sign on a wall as a woman tries to reassure him.

She asks: "What happened to you?"

(Image: Syria Charity)

And the boy replies: "I was in the Ard Hamra neighbourhood, I was looking at planes in the sky.

" The plane dropped a barrel . Yellow smoke started to come out of it."

He then starts coughing before adding: "We started running."

The woman, thought to be a nurse, then asks: "Were your brothers and sisters exposed too?"

And he tells her: "Yes, but I don't know where they are."

(Image: Syria Charity)

The little boy begins coughing again as the nurse adjusts his oxygen mask and he asks: "Am I going to die, miss? Am I going to die, miss?"

But she reassures him: "No darling, don't worry."

It is unclear when the video was taken.

Ard al-Hamra is on Syria's west coast.

(Image: Getty)

Government and opposition forces have both denied using chemical weapons during Syria's conflict.

Western powers say the government has been responsible for chlorine and other chemical attacks.

But the government and Russia have accused rebels of using poison gas.