Mains water and electricity have returned to large parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo following a three-week cut after rebels stopped water supplies to pressure the government, a group monitoring the war said on Saturday.
Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front stopped supplies to government and insurgent-held areas of Aleppo by closing the city’s pumping facility, forcing residents to drink untreated water from wells or resort to other emergency supplies, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
The water plant’s manager belongs to the Nusra Front insurgent group and had urged the government in a letter to restore electricity supply it …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis
