Civilians in the rebel-held part of the Syrian city of Aleppo are enduring a ”living hell”, the UN humanitarian chief, Stephen O`Brien, has said, as fighting rages on, according to BBC News.
”I am deeply alarmed by the ferocious pummelling of eastern Aleppo city,” Mr O`Brien, UN under-secretary for humanitarian affairs, said in a statement, BBC News reports.
”Indiscriminate bombing and shelling continues in a shocking and unrelenting manner, killing and maiming civilians, subjecting them to a level of savagery that no human should have to endure.”
The healthcare system in eastern Aleppo had been ”all but obliterated”, he added.
Stephen O`Brien urged the warring parties to allow the evacuation of hundreds of people who need urgent medical care.
Rebel-held front-line areas were subject to dozens of Russian air strikes overnight, observers said.