Aid Convoys back to Syria after four months

geneva/damascus - Aid workers in Syria after waiting four months to bring the first time aid to four besieged places. In Fua and Kafraya, which are besieged by rebels, have brought 58 trucks with relief supplies for 40,000 people, said a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva Wednesday.

Saba Dani and Madaja, which are besieged by government troops, has eighteen trucks carrying goods for 20 000 people.

The residents have received the bare minimum, but sufficient, it is far, said the spokeswoman. 'It is absolutely not enough to get in four to six months once something. 'The aid agencies are frustrated because permits for aid convoys be provided very slow.

The four places in the northwest and central Syria were subjected to months of wrangling to humanitarian aid. According to the UN live in the thirteen besieged areas in the war-torn country nearly 650 000 people. Most have been months without outside help.