A bus convoy transporting residents evacuated from the mainly towns of Shia Foua and Kafriya besieged by armed groups was hit by a blast which is said to be a suicide car bomb detonated among the buses near a filling station.

75 buses were dispatched to Aleppo yesterday for the evacuation of five thousand people from Foua and Kafriya towns as part of a deal with the Syrian government and armed groups.

In the region where 20 thousand people remained besieged since 2013, locals have no access to food and basic daily needs since.