The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said around 400 evacuees sought refuge in the Masaken Hanano , captured by pro-government forces Saturday, and that an additional 30 families fled to Sheikh Maqsoud, which is under Kurdish control. Aleppo, which was Syria's biggest city before the start of a civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, is divided between the government-held west and rebel-held east, where U.N. officials say at least 250,000 people are under siege. Syrian state media said the army had secured the safe passage of at least 150 people out of Hanano, and showed pictures of people it said were evacuated residents in a reception center.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that nearly ten thousand civilians have fled Aleppo in the past day.