Syrian ambulance driver cares for cats abandoned by owners fleeing shelling in Aleppo
Alaa spends £2.50 each day on meat for strays
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Your support makes all the difference.An ambulance driver has been buying meat every day to feed abandoned cats in a neighbourhood ravaged by war in Syria.
A man known only as Alaa has been spending about $4 (£2.50) each day on meat for the strays for the past two months.
Without Alaa to care for them, the animals would likely starve in the largely deserted district of Masaken Hanano in Aleppo. He told Reuters about 150 cats rely on him for food.
Residents fled the area because of shelling from forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad.
The ongoing civil war in Syria has displaced an estimated 6.5 million people, with Aleppo suffering some of the worst devastation.
By August 2014, the death toll from three years of fighting had risen to more than 191,000.
On Tuesday, the US-led coalition attacking Isis targets in Syria launched air strikes on the al-Qaeda Khorasan Group in the west of the city.
Meanwhile, Syrian warplanes have dropped projectiles including "barrel bombs" - oil drums filled with explosives - in Hama, Idlib, Homs and Aleppo provinces and around Damascus, the Syrian Observatory monitoring group reported on Friday.
Five people were killed when barrel bombs were dropped on al-Rastan city in Homs province and nine died in a barrel bomb attack in the east of Aleppo, it said.
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