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| Aleppo battle: Rebels burn Syria evacuation buses | |
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| Several buses en route to evacuate the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria's Idlib province have been burned by rebels. | |
| The convoy was travelling to Foah and Kefraya, besieged by rebel fighters. | |
| Pro-government forces are demanding people be allowed to leave the mainly Shia villages in order for the evacuation of east Aleppo to restart. | |
| Thousands of people are waiting to leave in desperate conditions, reports say. | |
| The initial plan to evacuate eastern Aleppo collapsed on Friday, leaving civilians stranded at various points along the route out without access to food or shelter. | |
| Despite delays caused by disagreements over the new evacuation plan, convoys were said to be travelling to both eastern Aleppo and the government-held villages in Idlib province on Sunday. | |
| However, UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said six buses were attacked and torched on the way to Foah and Kefraya. | |
| It had reported earlier that the rebel group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front, was preventing buses entering the villages. | |
| Syrian state media said "armed terrorists" attacked five buses, burned and destroyed them. | |
| Rebel groups have not yet commented on the attack. |