Blast hits buses in Alabo, killing 39 including children

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Nearly 40 people have killed and others injured in a powerful bomb explosion struck hit several buses carrying people from villages in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, as they were waiting to enter the city of Aleppo.

The blast hit al-Rashideen district on the western outskirts of Aleppo.

Syrian state TV reported that a bomber blew up an explosive-laden car at the site.

The buses were evacuating residents of Kefraya and al-Foua villages under a deal reached between the Damascus government and foreign-sponsored Takfiri militant groups last mont.

n late March, the Syrian government and militant groups struck a deal that envisaged the transfer of 16,000 people from Foua and Kefraya in exchange for the evacuation of militants and their families from al-Zabadani and Madaya towns in the southwestern province of Rif Dimashq..