Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 13-12-2016
The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) is warning that more than 100 unaccompanied children are trapped in a building which is under heavy attack in eastern Aleppo.
UNICEF says it’s reliably received the information from a doctor in the city.
According to the doctor the large group of children have been separated from their families.
Regional director of the UN children’s agency, Geert Cappelaere, said: “According to alarming reports from a doctor in the city, many children, possibly more than 100, unaccompanied or separated from their families, are trapped in a building, under heavy attack in east Aleppo.”
Cappelaere did not give details on the doctor or the location of the children but says it was “time for the world to stand up for the children of Aleppo and bring their living nightmare to an end”.
Pro-government forces have launched a ferocious assault on Aleppo’s few remaining opposition-held neighborhoods, trapping thousands of civilians under unrelenting heavy fire. There are unconfirmed reports that government forces are killing civilians.
President Bashar al Assad’s forces, backed by Russia, have recaptured large swathes of the city in recent days and, according to state TV, now hold 98% of neighbourhoods previously occupied by rebels.
Cappelaere says UNICEF is “deeply concerned” over the unverified reports of the “extrajudicial killings of civilians, including children.”
– Agencies
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