Final Evacuees Leave Aleppo

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The final evacuees from Aleppo came in throughout the day on December 21.  At approximately 4:30 a.m. Damascus time, two buses and three emergency vehicles came in, another convoy of 20 buses came at 6 p.m. Damascus time. At between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. Damascus time approximately 120 civilian vehicles came in and at 8p.m. another convoy of 500 civilian vehicles came in carrying approximately 7000 people. 

On December 22, private vehicles kept coming to the evacuation point through noon, in the afternoon 10 buses came in with and 750 more people came in private vehicles. At 10 p.m. the last 3 buses came. Very few wounded patients came in. 

Through the teamwork of UOSSM along with several other NGOs over 35,000 people were safely evacuated from the besieged area of Aleppo, despite the hardships and delays. 


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