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| A deal to evacuate rebel fighters and civilians from eastern Aleppo appears to have stalled, with heavy shelling reported in the Syrian city. | |
| A ceasefire was declared in Aleppo on Tuesday and buses brought in to ferry people out of the devastated enclave. | |
| But fighting resumed on Wednesday. More than 40 people had been hurt in eastern Aleppo, a local rescue official said. | |
| The breakdown of the deal, brokered by Russia and Turkey, is being attributed to demands from the Syrian government. | |
| It is said to be seeking the evacuation of its own injured fighters and civilians from nearby towns encircled by opposition forces. | |
| Eastern Aleppo has been held by the rebels since 2012. But the rebels have been squeezed into ever smaller areas of the city in recent months by a major government offensive, backed by Russian air power. | |
| Late on Tuesday, Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told an emergency session of the UN Security Council that "military actions in eastern Aleppo are over". | |
| Under the evacuation deal, civilians and rebels from eastern Aleppo were to be evacuated to rebel-held areas in northern Syria. | |
| Evacuations had been due to start at 05:00 (03:00 GMT), but did not go ahead. Fresh shelling was reported several hours later. | |
| "The clashes are violent and bombardment is very heavy... it seems as though everything (the ceasefire) is finished," Rami Abdulrahman, director of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, said. |