A video has emerged of a Syrian father helping his daughter cope with the sound of missiles by turning it into a game. 

In the video, uploaded by Abdullah Muhammed himself, he is seen cheering up his daughter, waiting for the sound of a landing missile to burst into laughter. 

The video comes in the wake of heavy bombing in Idlib, one of the last opposition-held strongholds in Syria, home to hundreds of thousands of Syrians and refugees who have fled other battles to settle there.

The unusual game is reminiscent of Roberto Benigni’s 1997 blockbuster Life is Beautiful, which told the story of a Jewish-Italian bookshop owner who used his fertile imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp. The critical film won several awards in the 1999 Oscars.