Some 350 people were able to leave a rebel-held pocket of east Aleppo late Sunday, a medical official said, though evacuations have officially been postponed.

Five buses carrying the evacuees arrived from besieged parts of east Aleppo," said Ahmad al-Dbis, who heads a team of doctors coordinating evacuations to Khan al-Assal, a rebel territory from where they can travel on to other parts of Aleppo and Idlib provinces.