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Russia delivers humanitarian aid to Syrian children

Xinhua, May 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

Russia sent three tons of humanitarian aid to a girls' boarding school in Damascus, the Russian news agency TASS reported on Monday.

The aid, including sweets and biscuits, was sent to the girls' boarding school where live some girls who have lost their parents in the Syrian conflict, said Colonel Sergey Istomin, a Russian representative in Syria.

Before the Syrian conflict, there were 54 orphan girls living and studying in the boarding school, now the number has risen to 730, according to Shahid Fallyuh, a children's welfare director.

A cease-fire brokered by Russia and the United States, which came into force on Feb. 27, has brought relative calm to the war-ravaged country. Endi