Woman’s death on Aleppo park bench stirs anger at Syria poverty

Woman’s death on Aleppo park bench stirs anger at Syria poverty

A harrowing image showing the death of a woman on a park bench in Aleppo has gone viral on social media, highlighting the poverty and social decay Syria still faces, nine months after the ouster of the Assad regime and the dying down of conflict in most of the country. The woman passed away while sitting on the wooden bench in the Qabaqib Park in Bustan al-Qasr area of the northern Syrian city, with no one noticing her for hours. Local sources i…