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Syria evacuations resume days after bombing

Syria evacuations resume days after bombing

April 19, 2017 | 10:31 AM
Chidren, who were in the bus convoy that was hit by a bomb blast outside Aleppo on Saturday, gather inside a tent connected to Bab al-Hawa hospital, near the Syrian-Turkish border
Evacuations from four besieged areas of Syria resumed on Wednesday, Syrian state television, a Hezbollah media unit and a war monitor reported, days after a suicide bombing killed dozens in a convoy which was part of the same reciprocal agreement.

Some 45 buses carrying 3,000 people left the rebel-besieged Shia villages of al-Foua and Kefraya near Idlib for government-controlled Aleppo, while a convoy of 11 buses left army-besieged al-Zabadani, the Hezbollah media unit said.On Saturday, a bomb attack on a convoy of evacuees from al-Foua and Kefraya killed 126 people, including more than 60 children, the war monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported.Under the deal, civilians and pro-government fighters from the Shia villages were travelling by bus to government-controlled Aleppo, while insurgents and their families from al-Zabadani and Madaya near Damascus crossed to rebel-held territory, having first gone to Aleppo.Three buses on Wednesday also carried wounded people from Saturday's convoy attack, as well as the remains of those who had died, the Hezbollah military media unit reported.

April 19, 2017 | 10:31 AM