People scared, locked in homes in Aleppo - Nuncio in Syria

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 2 - The Apostolic Nuncio to Syria, Cardinal Mario Zenari, told ANSA on Monday that he is in daily contact with bishops, priests and nuns in Aleppo where the situation is extremely difficult.
    "I am in contact every day, every hour, with bishops, clerics, nuns and priests in Aleppo", the pope's nuncio in Damascus told ANSA.
    "In some areas, the calm is suspicious, in others there is gunfire, missile strikes, as occurred last night at the Holy Land College", he noted, referring to a Russian raid that struck the Franciscan facility on Sunday.
    The situation, he said, "is difficult".
    So far, he said, rebels who seized Aleppo last week "have respected their promise, let's call it that way, not to touch civilians but people are locked inside their homes, they are scared, there are no authorities to contact, government offices have been abandoned and civilians are caught in the middle" of fighting, he said.
    Cardinal Zenari launched an appeal "not to forget Syria, which had unfortunately disappeared from the media's radar".
    "The instability here risks spreading", he said. (ANSA).