THE humanitarian truce in Aleppo was extended yesterday for another 24 hours even as insurgents fired on civilians trying to escape.

The Russian Defence Ministry announced the extension until Saturday evening as the Syrian army opened a ninth humanitarian corridor into the city.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said al-Qaida-affiliated Levant Conquest Front — formerly the Nusra Front — fighters were “refusing to leave the city” despite a government amnesty offer, and were preventing civilians from fleeing.