Jan 11, 2016- A long-awaited aid convoy has set off for the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, with enough basic food supplies to last 40,000 people for a month.
Residents have been trapped there for six months by a government blockade and have received no aid since October. Some have reportedly starved to death.
Deliveries of medicines and other non-food items will follow later this week.
Aid will also be sent to two villages besieged by rebel forces in the northern province of Idlib.
The situation in Foah and Kefraya is also reported to be extremely dire, with an estimated 30,000 people trapped.
Madaya, which is about 25km (15 miles) north-west of Damascus and 11km from the border with Lebanon, has been besieged since early July by government forces and their allies in Lebanon's Shia Islamist Hezbollah movement.
Brice de la Vigne from the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) described the situation in the town as "quite horrific".
Mr de la Vigne, whose organisation has been in contact with doctors inside Madaya, told the BBC that more than 250 people there had "acute malnutrition".
He added that 10 of them needed immediate medical evacuation or would die.
Source : Ekantipur
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