Instead of just reporting the toll, AP journalists Julia Frankel, Wafaa Shurafa and Abdel Kareem Hana looked at unique ways of bringing the sheer volume of death and destruction home to readers.
They highlighted the inability of people to find places to bury their dead amid the fighting and displacement. The story described how bodies “fill morgues and overflow cemeteries. Families, fleeing repeatedly to escape offensives, bury their dead wherever possible: in backyards and parking lots, beneath staircases and along roadsides.”
It was a unique effort to try to illustrate the toll of the war in a manner different from that of other news organizations. The story was read by tens of thousands of readers on apnews.com and the video got hundreds of hits on dozens of channels.
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