Rami Adham was heading home to Helsinki on Tuesday after spending 24 days completing aid work in the dangerous city of Aleppo, Syria. As he connected through Istanbul's Ataturk airport, deadly suicide bombings hit the building.
"Just when I felt relieved to be on my way back home, then we get evacuated from Ataturk airport due to the horrendous bombing," the Syrian-Finnish man told The WorldPost via messaging service WhatsApp on Tuesday. He suffered damage to his hand and other minor wounds, he said.
Suicide bombers killed at least 41 people and wounded 239 others in the attacks, Turkish authorities said. Initial assessments point to the self-described Islamic State group being responsible, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters.