Syrian army resumed the evacuation of residents from militant-besieged areas outside Aleppo after buses carrying them were hit by terrorists on Saturday, killing at least 80 people.
Al-Manar correspondent in Syria said Sunday that 80 bodies belonging to martyrs of Foua & Kefraya terrorist attack and dozens of injured arrived at Aleppo hospitals during the previous hours, adding that contacts were intensifying to continue the evacuation deal under an agreement reached throughout the last hours.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday that 98 of the dead were evacuees from the militant-besieged towns of Kefraya and al-Foua in Idlib Province and the remainder were aid workers and militants tasked with guarding the buses.
The death toll may rise further as “hundreds” more were injured in the blast, it added.
On Saturday, a bomber targeted the buses as they waited in the militant-held al-Rashidin district on the outskirts of Aleppo to cross into government-controlled territory.
Residents of Foua and Kefraya were agreed to be transferred to the outskirts of Aleppo City, the coastal province of Latakia or Damascus, while the gunmen and their families would leave for Idlib City under a deal reached between the Syrian government and the militants.
Source: Agencies
