Alwaght- The terrorist and militant groups in the northern city of Aleppo shelled the humanitarian corridors designed by the Syrian army to help civilians and the injured to leave the city.
The attacks also injured two Russian troops and a Syrian journalist in the region. The humanitarian routes are special pathways secured by the Syrian national army to transit humanitarian aids into areas controlled by the militant and terrorist groups as well as for the civilians and the in-need people to leave the city and seek medical attention.
The terrorist groups, however, shelled the routes to make them unsafe for trapped civilians as well as aid workers.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that shelling targeted the western part of the key Castello Road in Aleppo during a unilateral humanitarian ceasefire on Friday.
The 10-hour-long truce took effect at 0700 GMT on Friday, the second such temporary truce announced in the city by Russia and Syria.
The corridor attacked by the militants was one of a total of eight passageways established to allow civilians and militants not affiliated to terrorist groups to leave Aleppo’s militant-held east.
The journalist wounded in the Friday shelling worked for Syrian state TV.
The Syrian army launched operations to reunite the government-held western part and the eastern section of Aleppo on September 22.
Since March 2011, Syria has been gripped by a militancy it blames on some Western countries and their regional allies. Russia has been conducting airstrikes against ISIS and other terrorist groups in the Arab country at the Damascus government’s request for more than a year now.
