(EPA photo)BEIRUT - A stalled population transfer resumed Saturday after a deadly explosion killed at least 100, including children, government supporters and opposition fighters, at an evacuation point, adding new urgency to the widely criticised operation. The bloody mayhem that followed the Saturday attack only deepened the resentment of the transfer criticised as population engineering. Yasser Abdelatif, a media official for Ahrar al-Sham, said about 30 rebel gunmen were killed in the blast. According to Abdul Hakim Baghdadi, an interlocutor who helped the government negotiate the evacuations, 140 were killed in the attack. "The situation is disastrous,'' said Ahmed Afandar, a resident evacuated from the opposition area near Madaya.

Source: Bangkok Post April 16, 2017 06:45 UTC