AFP, Beirut:
Hundreds of frightened Syrian evacuees were on the move again Friday
after being blocked for 48 hours at a transit point where a bomber
killed dozens of their fellow townspeople, a monitor said.
Some
of the 60 buses carrying civilians and loyalist fighters from the
besieged government-held towns of Fuaa and Kafraya left the marshalling
area in rebel-held Rashidin, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
said.
Some of the 11 buses evacuating
civilians and fighters from Zabadani and two other rebel-held areas
around Damascus were also on the move, the Britain-based monitoring
group added.
Bomb attack
A total
of 3,000 evacuees left their homes in Fuaa and Kafraya at dawn on
Wednesday as part of a deal under which residents and fighters are also
being evacuated from the rebel-held areas surrounded by government
forces.
The evacuations began last week
but were delayed after Saturday’s suicide car bombing killed 126 people,
68 of them children, at the transit point in Rashidin.
The
process resumed on Wednesday but evacuees were forced to spend two
nights in their buses at the marshalling area following an 11th-hour
rebel demand for the release of prisoners held by President Bashar
al-Assad’s government.
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