Ali moved to Kuwait for urgent treatment

A KUWAITI hospital was last night preparing to receive an Iraqi boy whose arms were blown off in a coalition air raid.

Medical staff treating 12-year-old Ali Ismail Abbas have said he may die unless he is immediately flown out for specialist treatment.

Both of Ali’s parents were killed in an attack last week on his home in Baghdad, in which he was also severely burned.

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