Red Crescent Removes Bodies and Evacuates Patients From Old Aleppo

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent said it evacuated 124 patients and removed the remains of 11 people from Aleppo’s Old City on December 7.

The Red Crescent said it worked with the International Red Cross in Syria during the operation.

“These patients and civilians had been trapped in the area for days because of heavy clashes nearby and as the front line kept drawing closer,” the ICRC’s Head of Delegation in Syria, Marianne Gasser, said in an ICRC statement.

About 118 patients were taken to hospitals in west Aleppo. Thirty men, women and children were transferred to shelters in west Aleppo. There were six orphaned and very young children among the evacuees, according to the statement. Credit: Twitter/SARC_ALeppo via Storyful