SYRIA
AID CONVOY ATTACK
യു.എന് സംഘത്തിനു നേരെ വ്യോമാക്രമണം
An attack on a
Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) warehouse and a United Nations aid convoy in a
rebel-held part of northern Syria on Monday killed more than 20 civilians,
including one aid worker.The SARC said the convoy consisted of 31 lorries
loaded with non-food items, clothes and paediatric nutrients, supported by the
World Food Programme, UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and UN Children's Fund
(Unicef), and the International Organisation for Migration.On Monday afternoon,
after co-ordinating with all parties on the ground, the convoy reached a SARC
warehouse in Urum al-Kubra, a rebel-held town about 12km (8 miles) west of the
divided second city of Aleppo, from where the aid was to be distributed to some
78,000 civilians, the SARC added.At around 19:10
(16:10 GMT), as they were being unloaded, the attack on the lorries began, witnesses said. It was to last more than
three hours.
Ammar al-Salmo, a volunteer search-and-rescue worker from the
Syria Civil Defence, was in the area at the time and told Human Rights Watch: "We heard
helicopters in the air just before the attack."The fires and strikes were
so bad that we weren't able to even start a response to save people until three
in the morning. That's when we started to pull out the deceased from under the
rubble," he added."It is known to everyone in Urum al-Kubra and the area that
this is a Red Crescent warehouse and there are no military bases around
it."
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