Syria

Over 48,000 Civilians Leave Eastern Ghouta

 

More than 48,000 civilians have thus far left terrorist-held regions in Eastern Ghouta for government-controlled areas via humanitarian corridors, a field source reported on Sunday.

The source said that over 30,000 civilians fled the terrorist-held region in Eastern Ghouta via the specified humanitarian corridors on Saturday.

In the meantime, Head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria Major General Yuri Yevtushenko said that a sum of 48,033 civilians have left Eastern Ghouta since the start of the ceasefire in the region.

In a relevant development on Saturday the army men, deployed in the newly-freed town of Jesrin, stormed terrorists’ strongholds in Kafr Batna settlement and managed to capture several points in the settlement after hours of a daily truce in the region ended.

Also, the army’s artillery and missile units pounded terrorists’ positions inside Kafr Batna, killing or wounding a number of terrorists.

A field sources said that the army men have imposed control over half of Kafr Batna.

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