Huge blazes alight in Aleppo

HUGE blazes erupted in Syria’s Aleppo as the city was rocked by fighting and airstrikes yesterday, ahead of last-ditch efforts to salvage a failed ceasefire.

Key players in the Syrian peace process were to meet in New York later yesterday, with the clock ticking down as the UN warned undelivered aid for desperate civilians in Aleppo would expire in four days.

The truce deal brokered by Moscow and Washington fell apart earlier this week, ushering in a surge of fighting on all major fronts of Syria’s fiveyear civil war.

Heavy clashes gripped the outskirts of Aleppo yesterday, after airstrikes triggered major fires across the city’s devastated rebel-held districts. An AFP correspondent in the eastern Bustan al-Qasr neighbourhood reported that his entire street was in flames following the pre-dawn strikes. Volunteer firefighters battled CONTINUED

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