Unable to find a car to take them home, Noura and Rula came across a man with a donkey-drawn cart who offered them a free ride.

“The road was extremely rough, and the donkey could not pull too much weight. The man told me that he could only take my mother because she seemed unwell. She had diabetes and felt dizzy,” Rula told MEE.

“I agreed and told him that what mattered was that my mother got a ride. She climbed onto the cart, and I walked right beside her,” the 18-year-old added.

Right after Noura climbed aboard, some of her teeth fell to the ground, followed by a gush of blood from her mouth. She then collapsed.

Rula then heard what sounded like a small explosion.

“At first, I thought it was the sound of a ball or something, but then my mother’s teeth fell to the ground, blood began pouring from her mouth, and she fell off the cart,” Rula recounted.

“I still hadn’t realised that she had been shot. I thought she had fallen into a diabetic coma.”