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World Service,1 min

Orphan children hoping for escape from Aleppo

Newsday

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Hundreds of children are hoping to be amongst the first to be moved out of eastern Aleppo as part of the final evacuation of people caught up in fighting. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is the director of a group called Doctors Under Fire which campaigns to stop attacks on health facilities. He is monitoring events in Aleppo closely. (Picture - Staff of the Syrian Red Crescent stand next to buses waiting to take people out of rebel-held areas of Aleppo. Credit: Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)

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