Evacuation of Aleppo resumes, last hospital patients removed

December 22, 2016 00:10

Syrian rebels said they have reached an agreement with the government in Damascus on Wednesday to complete their withdrawal from Aleppo, once the country's largest city.

"An agreement has been reached to resume the evacuation of Aleppo," announced Ahmad Qara Ali, spokesman for the Ahrar al-Sham faction. He said the evacuations would begin "shortly."

The UN said Wednesday morning the evacuation had resumed.

"Buses are now moving again from east Aleppo. We hope that this continues so that people can be safely evacuated," the UN official in Syria said.

By Wednesday evening local time, the International Committee of the Red Cross said it had evacuated the last hospital patients from east Aleppo.

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