The escape from Syria's Eastern Ghouta in pictures
Thousands have fled fighting in Syria's Eastern Ghouta in what aid agencies have called "the largest displacement since the beginning of the assault on Ghouta".
A girl looks out from a bus during the second day of evacuation in rebels-held Douma, Syria. Source: AAP/Mohammed Badra
Nearly 20,000 people fled Eastern Ghouta in 24 hours after regime forces advanced into an isolated town in southern Ghouta, creating a corridor into government-controlled territory.
Photographers were there to capture the mass evacuation.
Syrian official news agency SANA released this picture of Syrian civilians holding bags of belongings as they flee fighting. Source: AAP
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Streams of civilians, mostly women, children and the injured, escaped through the corridor on Thursday.
A syrian man carries his mother as thousands leave rebels-held Eastern Ghouta. Source: AAPThousands of civilians leave rebels-held Eastern Ghouta with only the possessions they can carry. Source: AAPAn elderly woman joins the mass evacuation, carrying her possessions on her back. Source: AAP
They reached a checkpoint in Adra district, where ambulances and large green buses waited to take them to temporary shelters.
Women and children packed buses to take them out of Eastern Ghouta. Source: AAPSyria's official SANA released photos of government soldiers helping the exit of a new batch of besieged civilians from Eastern Ghouta. Source: AAP
A war monitor said regime forces now control 70 per cent of the area, splitting the remaining rebel territory into three shrinking pockets.
Two men hug before evacuating Eastern Ghouta. Source: AAPThe Syrian Red Crescent and the International Red Cross help those unable to walk. Source: AAP
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