Terrorist organizations on Thursday targeted with rocket shells and machine guns the surroundings of Bustan al-Qaser corridor in Aleppo City in an attempt to hinder the humanitarian pause which started today in the morning, the Syrian news agency SANA reported.

SANA reporter in Aleppo said that four rocket shells fired by terrorists positioned in the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo fell on the surroundings of Bustan al-Qaser corridor, indicating that the terrorists also targeted the corridor to prevent citizens and gunmen from leaving the city.

Earlier on Wednesday, the General Command of the Army and the Armed Forces announced that the decision of suspending the air strikes on gunmen in the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo came as the ceasefire came into effect on Wednesday.

Aleppo, once Syria's largest city and the country's commercial and industrial hub, has been divided roughly in two since 2012, with President Assad's forces controlling the west and rebel factions the east.

On September 4, government forces re-imposed a siege on the east, where about 275,000 people live, and launched a major offensive to retake it after the collapse of a truce brokered by the United States and Russia.

Since then, the bombardment has killed more than 300 people, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Source: MENA