The United Nations said Friday a humanitarian aid convoy reached the besieged Al Waer district of Syria's Homs governorate.

The UN added that a second convoy is planned to arrive in the district within the next few days.

Earlier, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that an inter-agency humanitarian convoy is delivering humanitarian assistance to about 37,500 residents in the besieged neighborhood of Al Waer in Homs. 

The two convoys combined will provide food, medicine, health, nutrition, water and sanitation, and emergency supplies for about 75,000 people. The last inter-agency convoy to Al Waer was on March 3.

Since the beginning of 2016, more than 844,000 people in hard-to-reach and besieged areas have received a range of humanitarian assistance through UN inter-agency convoys. 

Source : MENA