The UN has suspended all aid convoys in Syria after a devastating attack on its lorries near Aleppo on Monday.

The strikes, which witnesses say came from the air, destroyed 18 of the 31 lorries and came hours after Syria declared a week-old US-Russia brokered cessation of hostilities at an end.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the “bar of depravity” in Syria had sunk even lower.

Russia and Syria have both insisted that their forces were not involved.

Diplomats are now scrambling to salvage the ceasefire deal, with US and Russian officials holding talks in New York today.

A senior local official of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent was among about 20 civilians killed in Monday’s attack aid officials said.

A Russian defence ministry spokesman said that after studying video taken at the scene they “did not find any signs of munitions hitting the convoy”.

The Syrian military, quoted by state media, said there was “no truth” to reports that the army had targeted the convoy.

 

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