Director of World Health Organization's (WHO) Department of Emergency Risk Management and Humanitarian Response Rick Brennan speaks during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland September 30, 2016. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy
GENEVA (Reuters) - Fighting in Syria's besieged eastern Aleppo has killed 338 people since Sept. 23, including 106 children, and 846 have been wounded, including 261 children, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
"We are asking for four things: stop the killing, stop attacks on health care, let the sick and wounded out and let the aid in," Rick Brennan, WHO's head of emergency risk management and humanitarian response, told a U.N. briefing in Geneva.
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