Distressing video has emerged from a rebel-held area of Syria of a distraught man cradling the body of a dead child as civilians continue to be killed.

The tearful man can be seen holding the child's corpse in the rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus, recently described by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as a 'hell on earth'. 

The UN has called for an immediate ceasefire  to prevent a 'massacre' in Eastern Ghouta - the last major rebel-held area near Damascus - where 400,000 people have been under siege since 2013.  

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