UN aid convoys meant for Syria stuck in Turkey as ceasefire ends - News Summed Up

UN aid convoys meant for Syria stuck in Turkey as ceasefire ends


Two 20-truck aid convoys destined for eastern Aleppo with enough supplies to feed 185,000 people for a month are still stuck in Turkey, a UN spokesman said Monday, hours after a ceasefire in Syria had expired. The seven-day ceasefire declared by the Syrian army expired at midnight with no announcement of its extension. A Syrian rebel official said the truce had ended, and there was no hope the eastern Aleppo aid would be delivered. Deaths since ceasefire beganA Syrian activist group says 92 people have been killed in Syria since the start of the U.S.-Russia-brokered ceasefire a week ago. "I am pained and disappointed that a United Nations convoy has yet to cross into Syria from Turkey, and safely reach eastern Aleppo," O'Brien said in a statement.


Source: CBC News September 19, 2016 09:49 UTC



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