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Aleppo residents have fewer than 10 days to receive aid or face starvation and death

Updated on: 26 November,2016 08:25 AM IST  | 
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The inhabitants of besieged rebel-held eastern Aleppo have fewer than ten days to receive aid or face starvation and death from a lack of medical supplies, the head of the Syria Civil Defence, or “White Helmets”, said on Thursday

Aleppo residents have fewer than 10 days to receive aid or face starvation and death

Rebels in the eastern part of Aleppo city have agreed to a United Nations plan for delivery of aid. Pic/AFP
Rebels in the eastern part of Aleppo city have agreed to a United Nations plan for delivery of aid. Pic/AFP


Stockholm: The inhabitants of besieged rebel-held eastern Aleppo have fewer than ten days to receive aid or face starvation and death from a lack of medical supplies, the head of the Syria Civil Defence, or “White Helmets”, said on Thursday.


The volunteer group, which works in opposition-held territory is also running out of basic equipment from trucks to diesel and gas masks. Rebels in the eastern part of Aleppo city have agreed to a UN plan for aid delivery and medical evacuations, but the UN is awaiting a green light from Russia. With winter setting in, shortages of food, medicine and fuel coupled with intense air strikes and artillery bombardment are testing the limits of e durance among a population the UN estimates at 2,70,000.


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