About 100 people were killed in a car bomb
explosion targeting pro-regime evacuees leaving besieged Syrian towns, a
volunteer rescue agency said.
The blast, which struck buses of people who were leaving
their towns as part of a rebel-regime swap, also injured 55 others in Rashidin,
a suburb of Aleppo in northwestern Syria, according to Syria Civil Defense,
also known the White Helmets
The convoy of buses, which were parked at the time, was
carrying thousands of people from two regime-held but rebel-besieged villages
in northwestern Syria, state-run media reported. People were evacuating two
rebel-held towns in southwest Syria at the same time under a so-called Four
Towns Agreement.
Video shown on Syrian state-run television showed heavily
damaged and burned buses parked on the side of a road. People walked outside
the buses, surveying the damage as well as bodies lying on the roadway and a
grass median.
The evacuees, from the mainly pro-regime Shia villages of
Al-Fu'ah and Kafriya, were bound for regime-held parts of Aleppo.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported the convoy
continued, and the first buses arrived late Saturday in Aleppo. The buses
headed to the Jebrin area for a temporary housing center equipped with food and
medical supplies, SANA said.
No group has claimed responsibility.
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