Terrorists Continue to Prevent People's Exit Eastern Neighborhoods of Aleppo

Rasa - The UN announced in a statement that the terrorist groups in Eastern Aleppo keep blocking civilians' exit path despite the humanitarian pause in the city.

News ID: 425643

Date: 09 December 2016 - 23:02

RNA - The UN announced that almost 100,000 civilians have been trapped in militant-held districts in the Eastern part of Aleppo city, adding terrorists continue to prevent civilians' escape from the war-hit city.

The UN also announced that tens of thousands of civilians have been evacuated from the Eastern districts of Aleppo, including over 8,000 people who left the city on Thursday.

Around 8,500 people, including 2,900 children, left militant-controlled districts in the Syrian city of Aleppo in the past 24 hours with the help of Russian servicemen, the Russian Peace Coordination Center in Syria said Friday.

"In the past 24 hours alone, 8,461 city residents, including 2,934 children left districts in the Eastern part of Aleppo city with the assistance of the Russian center of reconciliation," the center said in a statement released by the ministry.

According to the statement, over a dozen militants who had been operating in Aleppo received amnesty after laying down arms.

"Fourteen militants, laying down arms, walked out to the Western part of the city towards Syrian troops. In accordance with the decision of the Syrian president all of them were granted amnesty," the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation said.

Russian servicemen have also demined about 6 hectares (almost 15 acres) of residential blocks in Eastern Aleppo, the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation said.

"The clearance of explosives has been fully completed in residential areas over a total area of six hectares. The central water pumping station has been demined and rebuilt, two power substations have been demined, as well as schools and two mosques," the center said.

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