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Rebel fire disrupts Aleppo evacuation
Russian military says all of city’s east now freed from militants

THE evacuation of east Aleppo was suspended yesterday after insurgents opened fire on buses sent to take them and civilians residents away.

The official Sana news agency reported that extremists had attacked a convoy at the southern Ramouseh checkpoint with mortar shells and sniper fire.

It said the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the international Committee of the Red Cross supervising the evacuation were forced to halt the operation.

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