At least 17 people were killed by heavy gunfire and about a dozen more were rounded up and executed after hundreds of civilians trying to leave eastern Aleppo protested against the foreign backed militants’ blockade of exit routes, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said on Saturday that the incident took place in the terrorist-held eastern Aleppo on Thursday.
Some 500 Syrian people participated in demonstrations across the militant-blockaded areas of Aleppo with at least 200 of them trying to cross into Aleppo’s government-controlled western parts, but the terrorists clamped down on the protesters, Konashenkov said.
He noted that the militants sought to disperse the demonstrators by “shooting … from a heavy machine gun and then mined all the approaches to a checkpoint and placed snipers on the roofs of nearby houses,” Russia’s Sputnik news agency quoted the official as saying.
“Seventeen people died at the site, including two teenagers of 13 and 15 years of age, over 40 people were wounded,” he added.
Konashenkov also pointed out that the terrorists hunted for the presumed organizers of the rallies, arrested 10 and took all to an unknown location.
“They were all executed on the same day,” he further went onto say.
On Wednesday, the Defense Ministry’s spokesman said that about 1,500 civilians had taken to the streets of eastern Aleppo to protest against the militants’ occupation. Unconfirmed footage has emerged online in which people can be seen chanting slogans and calling on the local council to take action against the militant groups.
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