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Pro-Syrian government fighters opened fire on a convoy as it prepared to leave opposition-held eastern Aleppo today, killing at least one person, Reuters reported.
Opposition fighters and besieged civilians are leaving the last enclave they held in eastern Aleppo.
“Regime forces fired at us and at ambulance vehicles and those people opening up the road,” the spokesman told Reuters.
“The convoy was shot at by regime forces and we have three injured, one of them from civil defence … They were brought back to besieged areas.”
In a video interview posted to journalists via an online messaging service, a man who said he was a civil defence worker said snipers had fired on people as they tried to open the road for the ambulances to pass a government checkpoint out of the opposition-held sector.
“The ambulances were on the way to the crossing which was specified to us for evacuating people and the regime forces started to shoot at us … Even the men who tried to open the road with their trucks, they fired at them,” the man in the video said.
A Reuters witness in nearby government-held territory heard a burst of gunfire that lasted several minutes.