Civilians desperately hoping to flee besieged areas of eastern Aleppo found their convoy under fire as a planned evacuation of rebel-held areas appeared under threat, activists in the Syrian city claimed.
The alleged attack happened during a tenuous ceasefire that had been announced. Rebels said the new ceasefire agreement was reached overnight after a previous one collapsed in under 24 hours.
Dr. Hamzah al-Khateab, responsible for medical logistics in the evacuation process, tells CNN "four (people) were injured, one was killed." Evacuations are still underway despite the live fire incident, he said.
He identified Bebars Meshaal, head officer of the Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, as among the wounded.
Al-Khateab said "we went to al-Ramousah and we were coordinating with the Russians, they said the road is clear, a truck entered to clear the road for the ambulances, fire have been shot at the truck and the ambulances. I am in the hospital now and Bebars is in the operation room."
The group confirmed on Twitter that a "volunteer" was "shot and injured by a regime sniper while clearing ambulance route in west Aleppo."
The activist Aleppo Media Center (AMC) also claims that "a number of injured as a result of direct fire by the Syrian regime on the ambulance vehicles as they were leaving the besieged areas towards the Ramouseh meeting point."
Meanwhile, Russia's military is preparing to evacuate the remaining militants from east Aleppo, according to a tweet on Russia's state-run Russian news agency. Sputnik is also reporting that those evacuated from East Aleppo will go to Idlib, "under Putin's order".
Deaths were reported on both sides Wednesday, while some 50,000 civilians are thought to remain inside the small pocket of eastern Aleppo still under rebel control. (CNN)
The alleged attack happened during a tenuous ceasefire that had been announced. Rebels said the new ceasefire agreement was reached overnight after a previous one collapsed in under 24 hours.
Dr. Hamzah al-Khateab, responsible for medical logistics in the evacuation process, tells CNN "four (people) were injured, one was killed." Evacuations are still underway despite the live fire incident, he said.
He identified Bebars Meshaal, head officer of the Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, as among the wounded.
Al-Khateab said "we went to al-Ramousah and we were coordinating with the Russians, they said the road is clear, a truck entered to clear the road for the ambulances, fire have been shot at the truck and the ambulances. I am in the hospital now and Bebars is in the operation room."
The group confirmed on Twitter that a "volunteer" was "shot and injured by a regime sniper while clearing ambulance route in west Aleppo."
The activist Aleppo Media Center (AMC) also claims that "a number of injured as a result of direct fire by the Syrian regime on the ambulance vehicles as they were leaving the besieged areas towards the Ramouseh meeting point."
Meanwhile, Russia's military is preparing to evacuate the remaining militants from east Aleppo, according to a tweet on Russia's state-run Russian news agency. Sputnik is also reporting that those evacuated from East Aleppo will go to Idlib, "under Putin's order".
Deaths were reported on both sides Wednesday, while some 50,000 civilians are thought to remain inside the small pocket of eastern Aleppo still under rebel control. (CNN)
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