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YEREVAN, JUNE 5, ARMENPRESS. The New Village Armenian neighborhood of Aleppo is declared a disaster zone. “Armenpress” was informed about this from Aleppo's News Office. A call is addressed to all Armenians to support by all means to stop the inhumane shelling, for the sake of people's physical safety.
In the first days of June the situation in Aleppo and particularly in the New Village Armenian neighborhood drastically deteriorated. The civilian population was subjected to different types of rocket and mortar fires by the terrorist groups, the important part of which are the Turkish or pro-Turkish radical terrorist groups. The missiles fallen on the New Village neighborhood in addition to the human losses caused terrible material damage. Residential buildings were destroyed completely, others were partially destroyed. Hundreds of Armenian families were forced to leave their homes. Some left the city and tried to find a safe refuge in the coastal city Latakia, some of them moved to the homes of their relatives living in Aleppo, some having no opportunity to move to another apartment, found refuge in the basement of New Village St. Gregory the Illuminator Church.
Huge damage was caused to the Karen Jeppe National College, Zavaryan College, Sahakyan National College, 3 kindergartens – National Haykazyan, National Sahakyan, National Zavaryan, Zvartnots College belonging to the Catholic community, the Armenian Apostolic St. Gregory the Illuminator Church, the Armenian Catholic Holy Trinity Church, the "East" publishing house, Syrian Armenian Cross Relief Center, National Orphanage, Youth bookshop, national "Cilicia", "Oshakan", "Nairi", "Artsakh" and "Sis" apartment buildings and shops.