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At least 68 children were among 126 people killed in Saturday’s bomb attack on buses carrying evacuees from besieged Syrian towns, activists say.<\/p>\n

A vehicle filled with explosives hit the convoy near Aleppo.<\/p>\n

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said at least 109 evacuees from government-held towns were killed, along with aid workers and rebel soldiers.<\/p>\n

Many more were injured in the attack, the group said.<\/p>\n

The explosion shattered buses and set cars on fire, leaving a trail of bodies, as the convoy waited in rebel territory near Aleppo.<\/p>\n

In his Easter Sunday address, Pope Francis called the bombing a “vile attack on fleeing refugees”.<\/p>\n

“May [God] sustain the efforts of those who are actively working to bring comfort and relief to the civilian population in beloved Syria, who are greatly suffering from a war that does not cease to sow horror and death,” he said.<\/p>\n

The bomb went off at Rashidin, west of government-held Aleppo, at about 15:30 local time (12:30 GMT) at the checkpoint where the handover of evacuees was due to take place.<\/p>\n

It happened when a vehicle loaded with food arrived and started distributing crisps, attracting many children, before exploding, the BBC’s Middle East correspondent Lina Sinjab said.<\/p>\n

She said it was not clear how the vehicle could have reached the area without government permission.<\/p>\n

But there is also no evidence that rebels were involved in the attack, as the government claims.<\/p>\n

It would not be in the rebels’ interest, our correspondent says, as they were waiting for their own supporters to be evacuated from the other towns.<\/p>\n

The planned evacuation was part of the so-called “four towns” deal, where civilians in towns under siege by both sides would be allowed to leave.<\/p>\n

It applies to government-controlled Foah and Kefraya, where the bomb struck, as well as rebel-held Madaya and Zabadani near Damascus.<\/p>\n

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There were fears of revenge attacks on evacuees from rebel-held towns, being moved under a deal.<\/p>\n

But the exchange later resumed, with coaches reaching safety on both sides. Evacuations were due to continue on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Rebels had earlier accused the government of breaching the terms of the deal, accusing it of trying to bring out more loyalist fighters than agreed, along with civilians.<\/p>\n

Foah and Kefraya, most of whose residents are Shia Muslims, have been encircled by rebels and al Qaeda-linked Sunni Muslim jihadists since March 2015.<\/p>\n

Madaya and Zabadani, which are predominantly Sunni Muslim, have been besieged since June 2015 by the Syrian army and fighters from Lebanon’s Shia Muslim Hezbollah movement.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n

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