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Syria: Evacuations restart after terrorist attack
Civilians leave towns caught up in civil war
EVACUATIONS from al-Qaida strongholds and besieged government-held towns resumed in Syria yesterday after the weekend’s terrorist slaughter.
But the violence continued yesterday, with a terrorist bombing on a funeral in Aleppo killing six people and wounding dozens more.
Around 3,000 civilians left the besieged government-held towns of Foua and Kfarya in Idlib province, boarding 45 buses for Aleppo to the east.
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