Buses used to evacuate Syrians burned bu militants

Buses due to evacuate civilians from the besieged Syrian villages of al-Foua and Kefraya were attacked and set ablaze.

Militants burned at least five vehicles that were en route to evacuate wounded and sick people from the Shia enclave in northern Syria on Sunday.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the al-Qaeda-affiliated Fatah al-Sham Front was responsible for the bus attack. State media said “armed terrorists” carried out the attack. Rebel officials said an angry crowd of people, possibly alongside pro-government forces, was responsible.

It came following Syrian state TV reports that around 1200 civilians would be evacuated from eastern Aleppo and a similar number from al-Foua and Kefraya, the Independent reports.