Food enters besieged Homs city after local deal

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At least some of these unfortune people will have some food in their bellies.

Food enters besieged Homs city after local deal
BYREUTERS | JANUARY 16, 2015 , 10 : 05 PM GST

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A handicapped man buys goods from a grocery shop in Old Aleppoon Thursday. Photo - Reuters

Geneva/Beirut: UN aid workers have started delivering food to tens of thousands of people trapped in a besieged district of Homs city in Syria following negotiations with warring parties, officials said on Friday.

In the absence of a nationwide peace deal, relief groups have tried to get localised agreements with fighters on all sides of the conflict to get convoys through to people in battle zones.

The United Nations did not give details of the Homs agreement but local opposition activists told Reuters there was a temporary ceasefire.

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