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Militant Shell Humanitarian Syria Corridor

Militant Shell Humanitarian Syria Corridor
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Foreign-backed militants in Syria fired rockets at a humanitarian corridor established by Syrian and Russian forces in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, wounding two Russian troops and a Syrian journalist.

Militant Shell Humanitarian Syria Corridor

The Russian Defense Ministry said that shelling targeted the western part of the key Castello Road in Aleppo during a unilateral humanitarian ceasefire on Friday.

The 10-hour-long truce took effect at 0700 GMT on Friday, the second such temporary truce announced in the city by Russia and Syria.

The corridor attacked by the militants was one of a total of eight passageways established to allow civilians and militants not affiliated to terrorist groups to leave Aleppo's militant-held east.

The journalist wounded in the Friday shelling worked for Syrian state TV.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that "around 50 representatives of Russian, Western and Arab media" had to be evacuated from the area and online monitoring of the humanitarian corridor had to be temporarily suspended because of the shelling.

Syria's state news agency SANA said the militants sought to prevent civilians from leaving by shelling the corridor, the second time they did so in the past month.

One Aleppo resident who managed to leave said people inside were being prevented from leaving the city by the terrorist groups of Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as Nusra Front.

Meanwhile, Fadi Ismail, an official in Syria's reconciliation ministry who is based in Aleppo, said "250,000 civilians" had been trapped in the militant-held areas of Aleppo.

Moscow said on Thursday that Russia and Syria were giving the ceasefire another try in an attempt to "prevent senseless casualties."

Foreign-backed militants, however, have ignored the gesture and last week used the pause to launch one of their most ferocious offensives in order to break an army siege on eastern Aleppo.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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