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At least 68 children were among those killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, activists said Sunday.

Saturday’s blast hit a convoy carrying residents from the northern towns of Fuaa and Kafraya as they waited at a transit point in rebel-held Rashidin, west of Aleppo.

126 people were killed in the attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, updating a previous toll of 112 dead.At least 109 of the dead were evacuees, the Britain-based monitoring group said, while the rest were aid workers and rebels guarding the convoy.

The evacuations were taking place under a deal between Syria’s regime and rebels that is also seeing residents and rebels transported out of Madaya and Zabadani, towns near Damascus which are surrounded by pro-government forces.

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