UN resumes aid to train sent to Syria

The UN has resumed aid suspended Syria after an attack trucks on Tuesday and sent another train to a fenced area on the outskirts of Damascus.

"Today we send a train interagency (...) in emergency aid for the inhabitants of a fenced area of ​​Damascus province," the UN Office spokesman for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jens Laerke, in a statement

"Resumed the distribution of aid by humanitarian imperative that demands remain and provide help, even in the most difficult situation," he said.

Laerke stressed, however, that the need to ensure a "safe passage" of the trains remains a requirement.

In the coming days, the UN hopes to take other humanitarian convoys to the surrounded areas of Syria, home to nearly 600,000 people.

Trains will be decided "case by case", said Jens Laerke.

On Wednesday, the UN announced it was ready to resume aid convoys to besieged locations or difficult to access in Syria, which had been suspended on Tuesday after an attack on a convoy near Aleppo.

The attack, on Monday night, hit a convoy carrying UN aid and Crescent Syrian Red for 78,000 people in Orum al-Kubra, west of Aleppo province.

Twenty civilians and the director of the local unit of the Red Crescent, Omar Barakat, died when discharging the train trucks.

Eighteen of 31 vehicles in a train destroyed.

There is no certainty about the origin of the attack. Washington considered responsible Moscow, but Russia denied and presented a video to support the answer.

All conflicting parties were informed of the train on Thursday, according to the UN.

Since the war began in Syria in March 2011, the conflict has left more than 300,000 dead and millions displaced.