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Beirut: Nearly 10,000 civilians have fled battered eastern Aleppo towards government-held districts and the Kurdish-controlled neighbourhood of Shaikh Maksoud, a monitoring group said Sunday.
"Nearly 10,000 civilians have fled east Aleppo since the night of Saturday to Sunday," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"At least 6,000 of them went to the neighbourhood of Shaikh Maksoud, the rest went to government zones of Aleppo."
Government forces retook six rebel-held districts of eastern Aleppo over the weekend, forcing huge numbers of civilians to flee as they pressed their offensive on Sunday to retake Syria's second city.