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Security Council to hold another emergency meeting on Aleppo
17 December 2016 03:01 GMT
The Security Council has called another emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Aleppo, according to a report in the Independent. France's ambassador, Francois Delattre, said on Friday that the Security Council will be meeting on how to safely evacuate civilians trapped in the besieged areas of the city.
Only a day after the evacuation of Aleppo residents began, numerous reports emerged that a convoy of at least 800 civilians was taken hostage by pro-Assad militias near Ramoussa on Friday.
“A group of cars carrying hundreds of people out of east Aleppo was stopped by tanks belonging to Shia militias and taken hostage for two hours,” said Seraj Alomar, manager of Boraq news agency and a witness who was on the convoy.