Press TV- Foreign-backed militants have fired rockets at a humanitarian corridor established by Syriaand Russiain Aleppo, wounding two Russian troops and a Syrian journalist.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that shelling targeted the western part of the key Castello Road in Aleppo during a unilateral humanitarian ceasefire on Friday.
The 10-hour-long truce took effect at 0700 GMT on Friday, the second such temporary truce announced in the city by Russia and Syria.
The corridor attacked by the militants was one of a total of eight passageways established to allow civilians and militants not affiliated to terrorist groups to leave Aleppos militant-held east.
The journalist wounded in the Friday shelling worked for the Syrian state TV.
The ministry said that around 50 representatives of Russian, Western and Arab mediahad to be evacuated from the area and online monitoring of the humanitarian corridor had to be temporarily suspended because of the shelling.
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Syrian government soldiers gesture as they walk down a road in al-Hamdaniyah, in eastern Aleppo, November 4, 2016. (Photo by AFP)[/caption]Syrias state news agency (SANA) said the militants sought to prevent civilians from leaving by shelling the corridor, the second time they did so in the past month.
One Aleppo resident who managed to leave said people inside were being prevented from leaving the city by the terrorist groups of Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as Nusra Front.
Meanwhile, Fadi Ismail, an official in Syrias Reconciliation Ministry who is based in Aleppo, said 250,000 civilianshad been trapped in the militant-held areas of Aleppo.
Moscow said on Thursday that Russia and Syria were giving the ceasefire another try in an attempt to prevent senseless casualties.
Foreign-backed militants, however, have ignored the gesture and last week theyused the pause to launch one of their most ferocious offensives in order to break an army siege on eastern Aleppo.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday that rocket fire on the government-held districts of Aleppo in the west had killed at least 15 people, bringing civilian toll in the area in recent days to 70.
Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations special envoy for Syria, has said the militants had intentionally killed scores of civilians in the west of the city.
The Syrian army launched operations to reunite the government-held western part and the eastern section of Aleppo on September 22.
