The “Arévélk” newspaper informs that the night of Wednesday to Thursday, mortar blasts fired at residential neighborhoods in Aleppo were recorded. Rockets fell on the Salah Al Din district, and Khaldiyé Nor Kiugh. On this Armenian quarter of Nor Kiugh (Hay Al Midan) an explosion caused significant damage in motherhood “Verjine Gulbenkian.” The rocket exploded on a house near the hospital for the elderly in the grounds of motherhood “Vergine Gulbenkian.” A building was destroyed. Nevertheless it seems that fortunately no casualties to report. “Arévélk” states that face the bombing, in agreement with the religious leaders of three Armenian churches of Aleppo, the elderly were transported in the buildings of the “Maternity Gulbenkian.”

Krikor Amirzayan