Syrian Arab Red Crescent trucks stand in the besieged neighbourhoods of Homs to supply humanitarian aid February 8, 2014. REUTERS/Thaer Al Khalidiya
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Six hundred people left the besieged ruins of rebel-held central Homs on Sunday, escaping more than a year of hunger and deprivation caused by one of the most protracted blockades of Syria's devastating conflict.
The evacuees, mainly women, children and old men, were brought out by the United Nations and Syrian Red Crescent on the third day of an operation during which the aid convoys came under fire and were briefly trapped themselves in the city.
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