Aid reaches besieged Damascus suburb - Red Cross


  • World
  • Monday, 08 Feb 2016

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Red Cross said on Sunday it had delivered more food and hygiene kits for around 3,500 people in the besieged Syrian suburb of Mouadamiya near Damascus, expecting to send more in coming days.

But no aid was sent to the neighbouring, also besieged, southwestern suburb of Daraya, which was cut off from Mouadamiya on Friday when Syrian government forces took full control of a strip of land used as a supply route between the two rebel-held areas, tightening a three-year siege.

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