Taxi drivers dodge snipers in battle to survive in Syria's civil war

Taxi driver Abu Mohammed cheated death when a sniper opened fire. The bullet whistled past his right temple.

Instead of him, it hit his female customer on the back seat of his yellow cab.

Like scores of drivers in Aleppo, Mohammed risks his life every day to ferry passengers across the front lines of Syria's vicious civil war, battling to stay alive and feed their families.

"I was coming back across al-Ramousa bridge when the sniper shot at me. The bullet whizzed straight past my face," he says, miming with his hand the trajectory of the bullet racing centimetres from his head.

"It wounded my sister-in-law in the arm. After that, the sniper fired another three or four bullets. I didn't stop for another three or four kilometres, then when I did, I made a tourniquet for her arm," he says.

That was two weeks ago. Now his wife worries every time he leaves their small flat, praying to God that he will return safe and sound at the end of his shift.