By Damien Gayle PUBLISHED: 13:54 EST, 4 March 2014 | UPDATED: 15:15 EST, 4 March 2014 Her blood mixes with dust on her pallid face. It leaves crimson stains on the green sweatshirt she is wearing. Yet the look on this girl's face appears strangely serene, resigned. This portrait of a wounded schoolgirl tells the story of the horrific toll on innocents caught in the cross-fire on the frontline of Syria's brutal civil war. She was photographed in an Aleppo clinic by Swedish freelance photographer Niclas Hammarström, whose work has just earned him Unicef's Photo of the Year award.
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Swedish photographer met Dania Kilsi at an Aleppo clinic in 2012
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She was hurt by a bomb which exploded while she was playing outside
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Despite being bloodied, she was not badly hurt and soon released
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