About 1,500 People Leave Eastern Aleppo With First Convoy - Red Crescent

About 1,500 refugees left Eastern Aleppo with the first convoy, a Red Crescent employee said Thursday.

ALEPPO (Sputnik) — About 1,500 people left Eastern Aleppo with the first convoy, a Red Crescent employee said Thursday.

"About 1,500 citizens — families of militants and those injured — left with the first convoy," the employee told RIA Novosti.

A convoy of 25 buses and 12 ambulances left Aleppo in the direction of Atarib in the Aleppo province's southwest.