File:Khan Shaikhoun hospital flare .jpg

Something happens at the White Helmets cave compound around 12:30 am. A bomb explodes. The first we hear about it is in this fake video by a Yaman Khateeb, who reports on it on his Facebook page at 13:39. It is unlikely that a bomb outside would affect the treatment room. Instead someone seems to light a flare in the room.


 * Source
 * مشهد مرعب لحظة استهداف المسعفين والمرضى والإعلاميين في مستشفى الرحمة بمدينة خان شيخون بصاروخ ارتجاحي (Terrifying sight for the moment targeting paramedics, patients and the media at Mercy Hospital in Khan Shaikhoun missile Artjahi) - أحمد الخطيب (Ahmad al Khateeb)

Bomb of flare?
I can't say I'm sure this is a flare and not related to the bombing. Or that is related and not a flare. I don't even know just where the blast(s) were relative to this room. (you might...) And it seems to roll people over a bit, more like an actual blast. But precedent says - if the general hospital bombing is a planned inside job (it's possible) - they could have one powerful bomb in the exterior building, and several little flash bombs everywhere a camera might be, all timed to go off at once. See Al-Quds hospital inside job for an example. If it were done the same way as that, we'd see a distinct flash of detonation, but a weak blast with lots of black smoke, and maybe a puff of smoke a split-second before the blast, and little damage afterwards. --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:05, 19 April 2017 (UTC)


 * I have not prepared a plan of the cave complex, but it might be possible using the videos. We know however that the treatment room is quite far from the entrance and should not have been affected by the blast outside. This photo shows the aftermath. Most importantly there is no bang on the video, only the hiss of a burning flare. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 10:29, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Aleppo bus bombing
John Delacour‏ on Twitter points out the photographer seen on the Facebook video is also present at the site of the Aleppo bombing of the evacuee buses.
 * ''Khan_Sheikhun al-Rashidin
 * ''Amazing how these ‘heroes’ are always in the right place at the right time!

-- Petri Krohn (talk) 10:10, 19 April 2017 (UTC)