During the reporting of Matter's "Whoever Saves a Life"—a profile of a team of volunteer first responders in the Syrian city of Aleppo—journalist Matthieu Aikins and the team narrowly avoided killed when a bomb dropped nearby.
"Aleppo is constantly being hit by airstrikes, and shadowing the team meant rushing with them to the site of each blast — or almost being hit by a bomb ourselves."
Filmed by Sebastia Tomado, to accompany Aikins' report from Aleppo for Matter: medium.com/matter/whoever-saves-a-life-1aaea20b782
More on the making of the story: medium.com/matter/the-making-of-whoever-saves-a-life-5201ff182d
