REUTERS - Syrian rebels
shelled Aleppo on Friday, killing three people, state television reported, a
day after insurgents finished withdrawing from their last pocket of territory
in the city.
The Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said about 10 shells
had fallen in al-Hamdaniya district in southwest Aleppo.
Rebels seeking to
oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have frequently shelled the areas of
Aleppo that have been under government control throughout the conflict, which
began in 2011.
The destruction in
those parts of the city has been far less than in the eastern districts that
rebels held until this month.
The last rebels left
the city late on Thursday for the countryside immediately to the west of
Aleppo, under a ceasefire deal in which the International Committee of the Red
Cross said about 35,000 people, mostly civilians, had departed.
Many of those who
left the city are now living as refugees in the areas to the west and south of
Aleppo, including in Idlib province where bulldozers were used to clear heavy
snowfall on Friday morning, the opposition Orient television showed.
On Friday morning
the army and its allies, including the Lebanese group Hezbollah, searched
districts abandoned by the rebels to clear them of mines and other dangers, the
Observatory reported.
State television
showed footage of the al-Ansari district, including empty streets lined with
apartment blocks smashed by air strikes.
REUTERS
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