Alwaght- Al-Nusra terrorist group has executed its members, who were trying to flee Syria's Aleppo city, and their family members.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 40 fleeing militants and their family members were captured and killed as they were on their way to lay down their arms and exit the besieged city of Aleppo via a humanitarian corridor, RT reported.
"In the Karyat al-Ansari quarter of Eastern Aleppo, Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists have executed two insurgents and members of their families,” reads the Bulletin of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria. The militants sought to enter the area held by the Syrian Army through one of the humanitarian getaways established for this end by Damascus and Moscow.
"In total, terrorists have executed 40 people,” the report says.
Seven escape routes for civilians and militants who want to give in to the Syrian army, have been set up in the city “around the clock,” chief of the main operations department of the Russian General Staff, Sergey Rudskoy, said in a briefing Wednesday.
Moreover, a special corridor was opened for armed terrorists near the Castello Road in eastern Aleppo. “A number” of groups bearing arms have already fled the areas held by terrorists via this route, Rudskoy has confirmed.
All insurgents who voluntary lay down their weapons and surrender are eligible to the amnesty, announced by Syrian President Bashar Assad at the start of the large-scale humanitarian operation in Aleppo on July 28. Scores of terrorists, both with and without weapons, have turned themselves over since the start of the effort.
Last week, Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria also reported that three civilians were murdered by terrorists in the Karm al-Qasr quarter of Aleppo as they were trying to reunite with their relatives living on government-controlled territory.
"Terrorists are obstructing the movement of people along humanitarian corridors. All approaches to these are being mined and are shelled with artillery,” the Center said in a statement.
Aleppo came under heavy fire on Friday, as terrorists shelled al-Asad Military Academy, the Kastello trade center, a cement plant, residential quarters of Hai al-Ansari and al-Khalidiyah, an airport and a market.
To facilitate the passage of civilians trapped in the city, three-hour ceasefires lasting from 10am to 1pm local time have been in effect since August 11. The pauses in fighting allow for the safe delivery of humanitarian aid to the most stricken parts of the city.
On Thursday, some 1,000 tons in food supplies, including fresh vegetables and fruit, carried by a 40-truck convoy arrived in Aleppo, Abdullah al-Gharbi, Syria’s minister of internal trade and consumer protection told Syrian news agency SANA. In total, the supplies delivered to the city will last two months, he noted. The products will be distributed at reduced prices.
Since the establishing of the corridors, over “5 tons of food, basic necessities, medicine as well as 93 tons of water” were delivered to the embattled city, Rudskoy said Wednesday.
